Cissus cucumerifolia Planch.

Liane to several m. with 4–5-angled stems, glabrescent or with white crisped pubescence; tendrils 2-fid.. Leaves similar to grape vine, simple, broadly transversely elliptic to very broadly ovate, 7–15 cm. long, 7–16 cm. wide, apiculate at the apex, cordate at the base, usually 3–5-lobed for half the length, subsinuate-dentate at the margin, pubescent with ± sparse white hairs; lobes ovate-triangular, acuminate; petiole 4.5–15(– 22) cm. long, often ± densely pubescent; stipules broadly oblong to ± round, 4–6 mm. long, ± densely white-pubescent.. Flowers in leaf-opposed and terminal cymes of umbel-like cymules, 7–17 cm. long, with the inflorescence-leaves small; peduncle 2.5–5 cm. long, pubescent; pedicels 8–10 mm. long, thickening and attaining 1.8 cm. in fruit, densely pubescent but later glabrous; bracts and bracteoles up to 1.5 mm. long, pubescent.. Calyx ± 1.5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, entire, densely pubescent when young.. Buds conical ± 5 mm. long.. Petals yellow and carmine, 3–4.5 mm. long, glabrous or with very few hairs.. Ovary glabrous; style 1 mm. long.. Fruits ellipsoid, 1.7–2 cm. long, 1–1.4 cm. wide, glabrous, 1-seeded.. Seed ellipsoid, 1.5 cm. long, smooth with single crest.

Can be grown by cuttings.