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Perennial herb 2–60 cm., with 1–several shoots erect or ± prostrate at base from a rootstock, glabrous.. Tendrils sometimes present, 0.5–2(–5) cm.. Leaf-blades unlobed, suborbicular, broadly ovate (or obovate) or elliptic to lanceolate, 2–16 by 0.6–4(–5.5) cm., base subcordate or rounded to acute, sometimes attenuate, top broadly obtuse (to retuse) to mostly acute, margin remotely serrate-dentate with teeth 0.5–1 mm., especially towards base; petiole 0–0.3(–0.5) cm.. Stipules 1.5–5 mm. False stipules absent.. Inflorescences 1–3-flowered; peduncle up to 4.5 cm.; bracts 1–4 mm.. Flowers glabrous; stipe 3–17 mm.. Hypanthium 2–4 mm. wide.. Sepals 5–7 (the inner ones petaloid), obtuse, 4.5–8.5 mm.. Petals 0(–2).. Outer corona-tube 1–2(–3) mm., threads 0.6–1.5(–2) mm., sometimes ± branched.. Disk 0.1–0.5 mm.. Inner corona cup-shaped, 1–1.5(–2.5) mm.. Stamens 5; filaments 1.5–3.5 mm.; anthers 0.6–1.3 mm.. Ovary up to ± 1 mm. stiped, 1–1.5 mm.; styles 3–4, free, 3–4 mm.. Fruit (excluding the 1–3 mm. long gynophore) 1.2–2 cm., containing 1–4 seeds.. Seeds 6–8 mm.
Perennial dwarf shrub or climber, 0.1-0.6 m high; shoots erect or prostrate from rootstock, tendrils sometimes present. Leaves polymorphic, lanceolate to broadly ovate, subsessile, entire; false stipules absent. Inflorescences 1-3-flowered; flowers cymose, peduncled. Sepals 5-7. Petals absent, 1 or 2. Corona double, outer fimbriate above, inner cup-like, membranous. Stamens 5, arising from within upper 1/2 of corona. Ovary stipitate, with 3 or more ovules on 3(4) parietal placentas; styles 3(4), free; stigmas globose. Flowering time Aug.-Feb. Fruit a 3(4)-valved capsule. Seeds 1-4, somewhat compressed, arillate.
Leaf-lamina unlobed, 2·5–8 × 2·5–5 cm., suborbicular, broadly ovate, obovate or elliptic, rounded or obtuse at apex, remotely and acutely denticulate especially towards the base, rounded or cuneate at the base, green on the upper surface, glaucous beneath; midrib and nerves prominent beneath, conspicuously and closely net veined on both surfaces; petiole 0–5 mm. long.
Cymes 1–3-flowered; peduncle up to 4·5 cm. long, often with a tendril in place of the terminal flower; bracteoles 1–4 mm. long.
Perennial herb, 0.2-0.6 m high. False stipules absent. Leaves not lobed. Petals absent or 1 or 2. Flowers yellowish green.
Perennial glabrous herb, with woody rootstock producing 1-several erect or prostrate simple or ± branched shoots.
Stamens 5, inserted at the inner corona, with filaments 1·5–4 mm. long and anthers 0·75–1·25 mm. long.
Outer corona blue, with the tube 1–2 mm. high and the threads 0·75–1·5 mm. long.
Ovary 1–1·5 mm. long, obovoid; styles 3–4, free, 3–4 mm. long.
Capsule 1·5–2 × 0·7 cm., pendulous, obovoid, 1–4-seeded.
Inner corona 1–1·5 mm. high, cup-shaped, lobulate.
Sepals 5–7, 4·5–8·5 mm. long, obtuse at the apex.
Flowers pale yellow with stipe 3–17 mm. long.
Hypanthium 2–4 mm. broad.
Stipules 1·5–5 mm. long.
False stipules absent.
Seeds 6–10 mm. long.
Petals 0, rarely 2.
