Climbing subsucculent herb; stems glabrous, glaucous.. Leaf-blade broadly reniform-cordate in outline, scabrid-punctate, apiculate, 20–54 mm. long, 45–68 mm. broad, palmately 3-lobed; lobes ovate-triangular, not narrowed below, to oblanceolate-elliptic, narrowed below, and sometimes ± lobulate; petiole sparsely scabrid, glaucous, 15–31 mm. long.. Male flowers 2–10 subcapitate in 1–2 mm. long racemes apical on somewhat upwards-expanded 14–50 mm. long peduncles; pedicels 0.5–1 mm. long; receptacle-tube 1.5–2 mm. long; lobes triangular, 1.5 mm. long; petals 2.5 mm. long; disk free from sides of tube.. Female flowers in shortly racemose 2–11-flowered groups, often coaxillary with ♂; pedicels 1–5 mm. long; ovary fusiform, 3.5–4.5 mm. long, 1–2.5 mm. across; receptacle-tube 1.5–2 mm. long; lobes triangular, 1–1.5 mm. long; petals 2.5 mm. long; disk obscure.. Fruits 1–3 on 4–10 mm. long pedicels, ovoid, apically rounded, not beaked, 11–17 mm. long, 7–9 mm. across, red with green cup.. Seeds pyriform, apically compressed, slightly curved, 4.5 × 2–3 × 2 mm.. Fig. 24/5–7, p. 140.
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