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Cryptic twining or scrambling, perennial, geophyte. Stems 1 or 2, branching irregularly, thin and wiry, 0.5-2.0(-5.0) mm; producing fleshy roots that can form large tubers. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, 8.5-30.0 x 4-25 mm, slightly succulent, glabrous; petioles 5-15 mm long. Inflorescence cymose; peduncle 4-17 mm long; pedicels 6-13 mm long. Corolla cylindrical, 16-25 mm long, tube erect and curved, 12-19 x 3.0-3.5 mm, slightly inflated basally, curved abruptly above inflation and expanding towards mouth, ± 8 mm in diam., mouth hairy inside, lobes erect, oblong-ovate, 4-6 x 3 mm, margins revolute with white whisker-like hairs, connivent and fused into a round cage over tube mouth. Corona: interstaminal corona lobes erect, dorso-ventrally flattened, fused at base, free above, deeply divided into 2 lobules curving towards each other, rim appearing 10-toothed; staminal corona lobes fused basally to interstaminal corona forming nectar pockets, rest of lobe free, linear to filiform, and incumbent on anthers, connivent, overtopping style-stigma-head, apex thickened and curved out. Anthers without anther appendages.
Slender climber to 1.5 m; sap clear. Leaves opposite, slightly fleshy, elliptic. Flowers 15-25 mm, tube abruptly swollen in middle and flaring above, speckled with red-brown on cream-coloured outside, petals narrowing to apex, ciliate.
Twining perennial herb. Leaves slightly fleshy, ovate to lanceolate, 30 x 20 mm. Corolla up to 20 mm long; lobes ± a quarter the length of corolla, cage short and broadly rounded. Flowers whitish and dark maroon.
Twining perennial herb. Corolla 20-25 mm long, upper third forming a rounded cage, basal inflation almost obsolete. Flowers greenish to yellow, variably purplish marked, darker on margin of lobes.
A twining herb. The leaves are thick and fleshy. They are 1-3 cm long by 2 cm wide.
