Ceratiosicyos laevis (Thunb.) A.Meeuse

Herbaceous climber, glabrous. Leaf-blade palmately 5-7-lobed with lobes acuminate and margins serrate, 3-14 cm long, 3-12 cm wide; petiole 2-14 cm long. Male flowers yellowish-green. Sepals filiform-linear, 2.5-3 mm long, 0.2 mm wide, slightly swollen at apex, spreading. Corolla-tube 3.5-5 mm long; lobes slightly shorter than the tube, ovate-oblong, ciliate, cohering together by the cilia giving the corolla an urceolate appearance. Glands linear or obovate, 2 mm long, fleshy. Stamens with linear filaments, 5-6 mm long, dilated upwards; anthers oblong, c. 3 mm long, cohering, reflexed at apex. Female flowers yellowish-green. Corolla-tube 2-3.5 mm long; lobes 2-3 mm long. Glands narrowly ovate, up to 1.5 mm long, fleshy. Ovary stipitate, linear-elongate, 3-4 mm long; styles short, 2-lobed with recurved lobes. Fruit elongated, cylindrical up to 8 cm long, 0.8 cm wide, tapered at both ends. Seeds subglobose to oblong, 3-4 mm diam., tuberculate.