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Dioecious, perennial herb. Stems prostrate, up to 1.5 m long, shortly hirsute to glabrate. Leaves 5-8-palmately lobed, base truncate, margins entire, up to 150 x 60 mm, roughly hairy above, on veins below; central lobe longest; petioles 4-20 mm long. Tendrils simple. Male flowers sessile, in 3-15-flowered racemes; pedicels 2-16 mm long, roughly hairy; receptacle tube campanulate, 4.5-6.5 mm long, ± hairy; lobes triangular, 1.5-2.0 mm long, glabrate; corolla funnel-shaped, glabrous; tube 0.5-1.0 mm long; lobes ovate, 2-3 mm long, glabrous outside, hairy inside. Female flowers solitary, pedicel 1.5-11.0 mm long, ± hairy; receptacle ovoid, 4 mm long, aculeate; lobes triangular, 1.5-2.0 mm long, glabrate; corolla glabrous; tube minute; lobes ovate, 1.0-1.5 mm long. Flowering time Dec.-Mar. Fruit ellipsoid to ovoid, up to 50 x 40 mm, dark green and yellow longitudinal stripes, aculeate, aculei 2.5-3.5 mm long; pedicel up to 20 mm long. Seeds elliptic, 5.5 mm long.
Perennial herb, dioecious. Stems procumbent. Tendrils simple. Leaves with blade palmatisect, segments 5-7, linear, < 4 mm wide, margin usually entire, revolute. Flowers: corolla up to 4 mm long; pale yellow; Nov.-Apr. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, with dark longitudinal bands, 30-50 x 20-40 mm, covered with thick subcylindric, spine-like protuberances.
Prostrate perennial herb, dioecious (male and female flowers on different plants). Tendrils solitary at each node. Corolla lobes up to 4 mm long. Fruits ovoid or ellipsoid, with dark longitudinal bands, 30-50 x 20-40 mm, covered with thick subcylindric callous-tipped and minutely setose-mucronate blunt spines. Flowers pale yellow.
