Cyphostemma hildebrandtii (Gilg) Desc. ex Wild & R.B.Drumm.

Climber, or sometimes erect, 0.5–8 m. tall from large fleshy rootstock; stems somewhat fleshy, rather stout, striate, pubescent or velvety with short greyish or pale ferruginous hairs and with dense purple-red usually gland-tipped hairs 5–6 mm. long; tendrils present.. Leaves digitately 3–5-foliolate; leaflets subsessile, elliptic to obovate, 3–18.5 cm. long, 1.2–9 cm. wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, crenate-serrate, pubescent or puberulous above, sometimes with stalked glands on the midrib, densely white tomentose or densely pubescent beneath, sometimes with stalked glands near the base of the midrib, with sessile discoid glands concentrated towards the margins on both sides of the leaflets; petiole 2–9 cm. long; stipules lanceolate, ovate or triangular, overlapping and cone-like at tips of shoots, 1.3–2 cm. long, 0.8–1.1 cm. wide, acuminate, pubescent and with some glands.. Cymes lax, on axillary branches, ± 6 cm. wide extending to 24 cm. in fruit; peduncle 4–9 cm. long with indumentum as for the stems; pedicels 3–4(–10) mm. long, pubescent and with gland-tipped hairs; bracts and bracteoles filiform to linear-lanceolate, 0.6–1.5 cm. long, pubescent.. Buds oblong-cylindric, 3 mm. long, constricted just above the middle, puberulous or glabrescent but with gland-tipped hairs at the apex.. Calyx 1.8 mm. wide, entire, pubescent.. Petals red to purple, often green at tips, ± triangular, 1.5–2 mm. long.. Fruits red, ellipsoid, up to 1.2 cm. long, 7 mm. wide, covered with long red gland-tipped hairs ± 6 mm. long.. Seeds ellipsoid, 6.5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide; ventral median ridge strong, apical end with broad excavated groove, dorsal ridges obscure with strong raised rugae between; transverse sculpture of 1–3 ribs, the basal one the most prominent.. Figs. 13/3, p.63; 15.

It is a tropical plant. It often grows on termite mounds. It grows in grasslands and open forests.