Cyphostemma montanum Wild & R.B.Drumm.

Climbing herb to 1.2 m. tall; stems with ± sparse ± straggling adpressed hairs and a few to many red gland-tipped hairs or, in F.Z. area, ± densely pale ferruginous tangled pubescent; tendrils present.. Leaves 3–5-foliolate; leaflets sessile or subsessile, elliptic to obovate, 2–8.5 cm. long, 1–5.5 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, regularly serrate, ± glabrous above, puberulous or pubescent on main nerves beneath and with some gland-tipped hairs on the midrib towards the base; petiole 1–5 cm. long, with same indumentum as the stems; stipules lanceolate, 4–9 mm. long, ± falcate, acuminate, pubescent.. Cymes ± compact, 5–7.5 cm. wide; peduncle 2–8 cm. long, with indumentum similar to stems; pedicels 1–2 mm. long (to 5 mm. in pole flower), ferruginous pubescent but without glands (? always); bracts and bracteoles linear, 1–4 mm. long, pubescent.. Buds oblong-cylindrical, 2–2.5 mm. long, glabrous or puberulous at petal margins.. Calyx 1 mm. wide, pubescent.. Petals greenish yellow or cream.. Fruit ellipsoid or globose, 7 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, glabrous.. Seed ellipsoid, 6–6.5 mm. long, 5–5.5 mm. wide; ventral ridge low and broad with several very obscure to fairly evident side ridges; dorsal mid-ridge evident for apical 2/3, laterals narrow distinct ridges with few obtuse tubercles between.