Suberect, prostrate or scrambling herb 20–60 cm. long from ± horizontal or ± globose tuber; stems pubescent with multicellular hairs and with longer red gland-tipped hairs; tendrils sometimes present.. Leaves digitately 3-foliolate; leaflets narrowly oblong to elliptic, 2–7.5 cm. long, 0.7–1.7(–2.3) cm. wide, acute or subacute at the apex, cuneate or ± asymmetrically rounded in the laterals, shallowly crenate to serrate, strigose-pilose and with some gland-tipped hairs; petiole 0–1.5 cm. long; petiolules 0–5 mm. long; stipules lanceolate, 5–10 mm. long, 1.5–5 mm. wide, acuminate, puberulous and glandular-ciliate.. Cymes axillary, 2–6 cm. wide; axes red; peduncle 1–5 cm. long, with similar indumentum to stems; pedicels 1.5–5 mm. long, glabrescent or pubescent and with some gland-tipped hairs; bracts and bracteoles linear, ± 2 mm. long, pubescent.. Buds cylindrical, ± 2 mm. long, constricted near the middle, glabrous.. Calyx 0.3 mm. wide, entire, glabrous or puberulous.. Petals red or crimson and yellow.. Ovary glabrous.. Fruit red, ellipsoid-globose, 6–7 mm. long, 5–6 mm. wide, with few scattered gland-tipped hairs.. Seeds subglobose, 4–6 mm. in diameter, with 2 parallel crests and a few tuberculate ridges fide Wild & Drummond, but a seed from cited specimen below was virtually smooth except for a granular texture and one from Zambia, Kitwe had a short thick ventral rib, almost imperceptible dorsal ribs and a general covering of small low tubercles.
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