Cayratia gracilis (Guill. & Perr.) Suess.

A creeper. The stems and branches are smooth. It has tendrils. The leaves have 5-8 sets of leaflets. The leaf blade is 7.5 cm long by 3.5 cm wide. They are narrowly oval. They taper to the tip and are rounded at the base. There are teeth along the edge. The flowers are in the axils of leaves and are about 10 cm long. The fruit are 6.5 mm long by 6.5 mm wide. There are 4 seeds in the fruit. They are 5.5 mm long. The two inner surfaces are flat.

Usually in shady and damp sites in tall grassland with scattered trees; forest margins; swampy and damp areas; streamside forest; savannah; bushland; thicket; fallows; waysides; sometimes ruderal; at elevations up to 2,130 metres.

The leaves are occasionally eaten as a vegetable. In Senegal it is eaten with the roots of Elephant foot yam (Amorphophallus).

Can be grown by seedlings.