Cissampelos owariensis Beauv. ex Dc.

Liane with stem and branchlets ± densely hairy-pubescent, rarely hairy and puberulous, sometimes ultimately glabrescent; indumentum normally composed of spreading hairs.. Leaves with petiole 4–16 cm. long inserted 0.8–2 cm. from the base of the blade; blade broadly ovate, generally suborbicular and angular (with the angles more or less prominent) or broadly triangular, truncate or rounded or subcordate at base, obtuse and mucronulate at apex, with variable indumentum, very rarely glabrous beneath; basal nerves 5–7, palmate.. Male inflorescences up to 40 cm. long; cymules with pubescent peduncles 0.5–3 cm. long.. Male flowers with sepals 1–1.5 mm. long and 0.7–1.2 mm. wide, hairy outside; corolla cup-shaped, 1–1.2 mm. long.. Female inflorescences up to 35 cm. long; bracts suborbicular or reniform, up to 4 cm. in diameter, mucronulate, hairy, longly ciliolate; pedicels 1–1.2 mm. long.. Female flowers with sepal 1.2–2 mm. long and 0.7–1 mm. wide; petal truncate or subreniform, 1–1.2 mm. long and wide; carpel 1–1.3 mm. long, hairy.. Drupes 4–6 mm. long, 4–5 mm. wide, hairy.

Lowland and riverine forest, also in secondary forest; it is often also common in clearings, orchards, fields and hedges, especially on moist soils, at elevations up to 900 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.