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Straggling and climbing perennial to c. 1 m long with recurved and zig-zag branches. Cladodes 3 per axil, ±equal, finely acicular, slightly arcuate, apiculate, 3–9 mm long, usually less than 0.5 mm wide. Flowers solitary in axils, 5–8 mm diam., greenish white, erect; pedicel 6–11 mm long, articulated 2–4 mm from base. Sepals and petals linear-oblong, reflexed, 4–6 mm long, 1–2 mm wide. Stamens c. 3 mm long; filaments filiform, with minute basal spur; anthers c. 0.5 mm long, orange. Ovary ovoid-globose, c. 1.5 mm long; style c. 1.5 mm long; stigma capitate. Berry ovoid, 8–12 (–15) mm long, pale bluish grey. Seeds 3–9, globose, 2.5–3.5 mm diam.
Soft, deciduous, scandent shrublet, up to 1 m high. Rhizome creeping with many fusiform tubers. Stems annual, thin. Cladodes linear-acuminate, arcuate. Flowers solitary; stamens with orange anthers and 2 basal spurs on filaments; pedicels ± 5-11 mm long, articulated below perianth. Flowering time May-Sept. Fruit a whitish and semitransparent berry.
Much-branched, delicate, spineless scrambler, up to 1 m long, root tubers spindle-shaped, usually covering rhizome, branches curved downwards in loops. Cladodes 3 in fascicles, linear. Flowers nodding, solitary in axils, tepals cohering below, filaments perpendicular.
A climbing herb. It has rhizomes and forms tubers. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 1 m high. The flowers are white and green.
Much-branched scrambler to 1 m. Cladodes in threes, linear. Flowers nodding, solitary in axils, tepals fused below, filaments straight.
