Cissus grisea Planch.

Woody climber or trailer 2–16 m. long; stems terete, shortly grey, brownish or ferruginous pubescent, smelling unpleasant when cut; tendrils bifid.. Leaves simple, ± round or oblong to ovate, 5.5–18.5 cm. long, 3.5–15.5 cm. wide, apiculate and acute at the apex, cordate at the base with a wide sinus, occasionally very slightly 3-lobed, pubescent with short spreading hairs, usually sparse above but denser on venation beneath; petiole 2–8 cm. long, densely pubescent; stipules rounded-oblong, 3–5 mm. long, apiculate at the apex, cordate at the base, densely puberulous, ± auriculate.. Flowers in leaf-opposed umbel-like cymes 5–15 cm. long of 3–5 umbel-like cymules; peduncles 3–11.5 cm. long, pubescent; pedicels 5 mm. long, lengthening to 1.3 cm. in fruit, densely pubescent; bracts and bracteoles 1.5 mm. long, pubescent.. Calyx 1 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, entire or undulate, densely pubescent.. Buds 2–3 mm. long, densely pubescent.. Petals green or white, 2 mm. long, cucullate with an inflexed apical lobe.. Ovary pubescent; style 1 mm. long.. Fruit plum-coloured or dark red to ± black, ellipsoid, 0.8–1.2 cm. long, 6–8 mm. wide, covered with soft pubescent elongate processes, 1-seeded.. Seed ellipsoid, 8 mm. long, 5 mm. wide.