Cyphostemma wittei (Staner) Wild & R.B.Drumm.

Prostrate or scrambling subshrubby herb 1–2 m. long from a thick fusiform woody taproot, which is red inside, up to 30 cm. long and 8 cm. in diameter; stems tomentose to ± ferruginous pubescent and often with sparse to dense gland-tipped bristly hairs; tendrils absent.. Leaves simple to digitately 3-foliolate with lateral leaflets mostly much smaller than the median, sessile or subsessile; median leaflets and simple leaves oblong, ovate, oblong-elliptic, narrowly obovate to oblanceolate or ± round, 3–21 cm. long, 1.5–15 cm. wide, sometimes shallowly to deeply 3-lobed, rounded to obtusely angled at the apex, cuneate to cordate at the base; laterals broadly obovate, obovate, broadly ovate or ± round, 1–5 cm. long, 0.7–3 cm. wide, acute to rounded at the apex, asymmetrically rounded at the base; all glabrous above except for nerves slightly pubescent and puberulous margin, densely pubescent on nerves beneath to densely often ferruginous felted velvety or with straggling matted hairs; all with ± crenate margins, the crenae apiculate; petiole 0–2(–5) mm. long, pubescent or tomentose, petiolules 0–6(–15) mm. long; stipules lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 0.6–1.8 cm. long, 3–7 mm. wide, acute to acuminate at the apex, ± falcate, ± densely pubescent.. Inflorescences bright red, 3–12 cm. wide; peduncle 2.5–11 cm. long, with similar indumentum to stem; pedicels 1.7–3 mm. long; axes with or without gland-tipped hairs; bracts and bracteoles subulate-lanceolate, 1–2 mm. long, pubescent.. Buds oblong-cylindric, 1.7–4 mm. long, constricted slightly near the middle, pubescent or glabrous.. Calyx brown, 1.5–2 mm. wide, entire, puberulous.. Petals yellow to crimson or with only red tips, 2 mm. long.. Ovary glabrous.. Fruit red turning purplish black, ellipsoid-globose, 6.5–10 mm. long, 5–8 mm. wide, glabrous.. Seeds ellipsoid, 5.5–8 mm. long, 4–6 mm. wide, rugose; main ridge evident and with ± 4 transverse ridges.