Climbing or scrambling ± weak rather viscid herb 1.5–2.5 m. long, nearly always drying black; rootstock a large tuber; stems rather slender, with short often sparse pubescence and longer but still short red gland-tipped hairs 0.5–1 mm. long; nodes red; tendrils present.. Leaves digitately 3–5(–7)-foliolate, rather shortly petiolate, the petioles always shorter than the main leaflets; leaflets elliptic to narrowly obovate, 1.5–11 cm. long, 0.7–7 cm. wide, acute at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, usually rather regularly crenate-serrate, rarely ± lobulate, pubescent to glabrescent above, more densely grey-pubescent beneath particularly on nervation, often with gland-tipped hairs on lower part of midrib and margins; petiole 2–5 cm. long, with indumentum of stem; petiolules 0.3–2.2 cm. long, with same indumentum; stipules lanceolate-acuminate, 5–7 mm. long, ± falcate, pubescent and with gland-tipped hairs.. Cymes lax and ± straggly, axillary, 2–15 cm. wide; peduncles 4–7 cm. long, with indumentum similar to the stems; pedicels 2–4 mm. long, pubescent and with some gland-tipped hairs; bracts and bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 2 mm. long, pubescent and with some gland-tipped hairs.. Buds oblong-cylindric, 2–3.5 mm. long, constricted above the middle, glabrous to pubescent and sometimes with gland-tipped hairs but usually absent in the Flora area.. Calyx 1.2 mm. wide, pubescent.. Petals white, yellow or green, red-tipped.. Ovary glandular-pubescent.. Fruit red, ellipsoid, 7–10 mm. long, 5.5–7 mm. wide, sometimes apiculate, ferruginous pubescent and with rather short capitate-glandular hairs.. Seed ellipsoid, 5.5–7 mm. long, ?3–4.5 mm. wide; ventral ridge strong; mid-dorsal ridge ± strong but laterals obscure, surface obscurely tuberculate.
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A climbing herb or shrub. It grows about 1 m tall. The leaves have 5 lobes like fingers on a hand. The leaves are white underneath with brown veins. The leaflet blades are 11 cm long by 7 cm wide. They are narrowly oval. There are rounded teeth along the edge. The flowers have reddish petals. The fruit are red and oval. They are hairy. The seed is about 7 mm long by 5 mm wide.
Climber, drying black. Leaves digitately 3-5-foliolate, petioles up to 50 mm long, leaflets elliptic to narrowly obovate, up to 110 x 70 mm, petiolules up to 15 mm long. Flowers red.
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