Cissus bathyrhakodes Werderm.

Erect perennial somewhat fleshy herb 0.6–1.5 m. tall from a woody rootstock; stems glabrous but with a fine white bloom, without tendrils.. Leaves simple, ± round in outline, 5–25 cm. long and wide, shallowly to very deeply (3–)5(–7)-lobed, acute at apices of lobes, truncate to shallowly cordate at base, lobes ± elliptic or oblong, sinuate-crenate and with small narrow teeth, glabrous; petiole 5–13 cm. long, glabrous; stipules broadly ovate, somewhat falcate, 5–6 mm. long, cordate at base, amplexicaul.. Flowers in leaf-opposed umbel-like cymes; peduncles (1–)2–3.5 cm. long; secondary axes 1–2 cm. long, all glabrous; pedicels 3–5 mm. long, lengthening to 6 mm. in fruit, sparsely pubescent or glabrous; bracts and bracteoles 1.5 mm. long.. Calyx crimson, 0.5 mm. long, entire or 4-lobed, glabrous.. Petals reddish yellow or orange, becoming vinous with age, 1.5–2 mm. long, glabrous.. Ovary glabrous; style 0.5 mm. long.. Fruit red, subglobose or ovoid, 0.6–1 cm. long, 6 mm. wide, 1-seeded.. Seed ellipsoid, 8 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, smooth.