Cissus faucicola Wild & R.B.Drumm.

Herbaceous climber to several m. long; stems ± slender, tinged purplish, glabrous, often narrowly winged, the wings becoming narrowly corky; tendrils unbranched.. Main leaves digitately 3–5-foliolate; leaflets ovate to elliptic, 2.5–9(–14.5) cm. long, 1.2–4(–6.5) cm. wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, narrowly cuneate to truncate then cuneate at the base, serrate at the margins with setiform teeth up to 1 mm. long, glabrous except sometimes a few scabrid hairs on venation beneath; some 3-foliolate leaves have outer leaflets lobed at base; petiole 1.5–10 cm. long, glabrous or scabrid hairy; petiolules 0.8–1.2 cm. long; leaves on flowering shoots reduced, simple, narrowly to broadly ovate, 3–5.5 cm. long, 1.2–4 cm. wide, acute at the apex, cuneate to truncate at the base, sometimes 3-lobed; stipules narrowly ovate to ovate, 2–5 mm. long, 1–4 mm. wide.. Flowers in few-to ± many-flowered congested ± slender leaf-opposed cymes of umbelliform cymules 2–8 mm. long; peduncle and axes 0.1–2.5 cm. long; pedicels 2.5–5 mm. long, thickening and lengthening to 1 cm. in fruit, glabrous; bracts and bracteoles 0.5–2 mm. long.. Calyx reddish, plate-like, 1 mm. long, ± entire to obscurely 4-lobed, glabrous.. Petals yellowish green or white with purple tips or red to purplish outside, triangular to narrowly ovate, 1.8–2.5 mm. long, glabrous.. Disk cream.. Ovary glabrous; style white, 1 mm. long.. Fruit ellipsoid, 6 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide, densely crisped-rugose when dry with irregular wing-like folds.. Seed ellipsoid, 7 mm. long, 5 mm. wide. 2.5 mm. thick, the main keel raised but otherwise ± smooth (± immature).