Corallocarpus boehmii (Cogn.) C.Jeffrey

Climbing or trailing perennial herb; stems sparsely to densely crisped-hairy, when older becoming glabrous, brownish, thickened and often white-punctate; old basal stems arising from tuber with pale furrowed papery bark.. Leaf-blade ovate-or reniform-cordate in outline, densely short-hairy above and below, ± sinuate-toothed, rounded and apiculate, 22–50 mm. long, 29–65 mm. broad, palmately ± 3-lobed; lobes triangular or broadly rounded, not narrowed below, to obovate or rhombic and narrowed below; petiole densely shortly crisped-hairy, 12–48 mm. long.. Male flowers 3–18 in 1–6 mm. long subcapitate racemes apical on 8–36 mm. long peduncles sometimes borne on ± contracted leafless stems; pedicels 1–1.5 mm. long; receptacle-tube 1–1.5 mm. long, hairy inside at the mouth; lobes triangular-lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm. long; petals ± 2 mm. long, spreading.. Female flowers 1–5 or more, clustered or shortly racemose, sometimes crowded on leafless contracted branches, usually coaxillary with ♂; pedicels 1 mm. long; ovary ellipsoid, densely hairy, 4–5 mm. long, 2 mm. across; receptacle-tube 1.5 mm. long; lobes triangular, reflexed, 1 mm. long; petals ± 1 mm. long.. Fruits 1–5 or rarely more, clustered or shortly racemose on 0.5–4 mm. long stalks, subspherical, shortly beaked, shortly hairy, red, 10–14 mm. long, 7–10 mm. across; beak 0.5–2.5 mm. long.. Seeds pyriform, slightly curved, narrowly bordered, ± rugose or scaly, 4 × 2.5 × 2 mm.. Fig. 24/8, p. 140.