Perennial glabrous or occasionally in young parts somewhat hairy climber. Stems up to 8 m long, branched, slender, sulcate. Leaves suborbicular to ovate-oblong in outline, firm, herbaceous to somewhat coriaceous, dark-green above, paler below, sometimes slightly glaucescent, smooth on both surfaces or finely punctate-scabrid on upper one, often with a few black glands near the base on lower one, deeply palmately 5-sect, 4-12 cm long and broad; the lobes ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the terminal one slightly larger than the two lateral ones, basal ones distinctly smaller; the margins from minutely and remotely denticulate to occasionally lobulate with the dentitions callous-toothed; sinuses between lobes usually subacute to rounded; basal sinus subrotundate to narrow; petioles slender, striate, 1-6 cm long. Tendrils bifid, often unequally so. Male flowers: peduncles 1-to racemosely 8-flowered, slender, 2-10 cm long, one-flowered ones articulated at the apex; pedicels nearly filiform, articulated at the apex, 8-25 mm long; calyx glabrous, receptacle 3-6 mm long, 5-7 mm in diam., sepals 3-4 mm long; corolla pale yellow, 1-2 cm long; segments acute. Female flowers: peduncle up to 6 cm long; staminodes oblong, long-pubescent, 2-3 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad; ovary oblong-linear to fusiform, glabrous, about 1.5 cm long. Fruit oblong-fusiform to narrowly ellipsoid, acute, red when ripe, 5-8 cm long, 2-3.5 cm in diam. Seeds dirty white, finely rugulose, 6.5-8 mm long, 3-4 mm broad and about 1.5 mm thick.
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Dioecious, perennial herb, glabrous. Stems slender, branched, climbing, up to 9 m long. Leaves 40-120 mm long and wide, outline suborbicular to ovate-oblong, dark green above, paler below, ± smooth both sides, deeply palmately 5-sect; lobes ovate to oblong-lanceolate, ± acute, central lobe largest; margins ± denticulate to callose-toothed, basal sinus subrotund to narrow; petioles 10-60 mm long. Male flowers 1-to racemosely 8-flowered; peduncles 20-100 mm long; pedicels 8-25 mm long; receptacle tube 3-6 mm long; lobes 3-4 mm long; corolla 10-20 mm long, pale yellow, petals acute. Female flowers: peduncle up to 60 mm long. Flowering time Jan.-Apr. Fruit oblong-fusiform to narrowly ellipsoid, acute, red when ripe, up to 80 x 35 mm. Seeds dirty white, finely rugulose, 6.5-8.0 mm long.
A climbing herb. It can be 8 m long. It keeps growing from year to year. The tendrils are divided into 2. The leaves are round to oblong. The flowers are pale yellow. The fruit are oblong. They are red when ripe. They are 5-8 cm long by 2-3.5 cm wide. The seeds a dirty white and rough. They are 7-8 mm long by 3-4 mm wide and 1.5 mm thick.
Climbing perennial herb. Tendrils bifid. Leaves petiolate, glabrous. Corolla lobes 10-20 mm long. Fruit not rostrate, oblong-fusiform to narrowly ellipsoid, acute. Flowers pale yellow.
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