Prostrate or climbing herb 2–3 m. long from a tuberous rootstock; stems striate, ± adpressed grey or ferruginous pubescent, usually with gland-tipped hairs but these may be absent; tendrils present, red.. Leaves somewhat fleshy, 3–5-foliolate, sessile or subsessile; leaflets narrowly elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate-obovate, 1–12 cm. long, 0.7–5 cm. wide, rounded to acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, crenate to sharply serrate, sometimes folded along the midrib, often falcate, sparsely to densely puberulous or pubescent or glabrescent; median petiolule 0.3–1.5 cm. long, pubescent or puberulous and sometimes with a few gland-tipped hairs; stipules ovate or oblong, acuminate, 0.5–1.5 cm. long, up to 6.5 mm. wide, ± falcate, pubescent.. Cymes lax from terminal and short lateral shoots, 6 cm. wide extending to 15 cm. in fruit; peduncle 1.5–7 cm. long, grey or ferruginous pubescent and often with gland-tipped hairs; pedicels (1–)2–4 mm. long, densely whitish or ferruginous pubescent; bracts and bracteoles linear, 2 mm. long, pubescent.. Buds greenish yellow, green, pink or white, oblong-cylindric, ± 2.7 mm. long, constricted just above the middle, puberulous.. Calyx red or white, 0.3 mm. long, densely pubescent and often with black or purplish sessile glands near junction with pedicel.. Ovary pubescent or densely white tomentose.. Fruit red, ellipsoid, 6.5–8 mm. long, 4.5–5 mm. wide, apiculate, densely pubescent.. Seed ovoid-subglobose, 5.5–6 mm. long, 4–4.5 mm. wide; ventral crest basally marked, less marked with marginal groove on either side apically, dorsal median crest strong and with groove at either side, lateral crests obsolete or obscure but rugose between, overall ± distinctly tuberculate.
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A climbing herb. It grows 2-3 m long. It has a tuberous rootstock. The stems have lines along them and are hairy. It has tendrils. The leaves are fleshy and have 3-5 leaflets. They are narrow and 1-12 cm long by 0.7-5 cm wide. They are wedge shaped at the base and rounded at the tip. There are teeth along the edge. The fruit are oval and red. They are 6.5-8 mm long by 4.5-5 mm wide. They are hairy.
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