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Perennial, dwarf shrub or creeper, 0.4-3.5 m high; woody rootstock, hirsute and pubescent. Leaves 5-partite, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, base constricted, deeply cordate, apex acute, serrate to subentire. Inflorescences axillary; bracts ovate, 3-lobed, lobes lanceolate, glandular-serrate, rounded-cuneate, base truncate or shallowly cordate. Male flowers pedicels 3 mm long; calyx lobes 5, ovate or lanceolate, subglabrous; stamens 25. Female flowers subsessile; sepals 10-12, linear, lateral lobules 10-or 11-paired, gland-tipped, pubescent and with urticate hairs; ovary pubescent; style dilated and apex excavated. Flowering time Oct.-Mar. Fruit smooth, hispidulous. Seeds smooth.
Inflorescences axillary; peduncles 4–16 cm long, leafless or with a small tripartite leaf near the base; bract stipules the same as the foliar stipules; bracts 3.5–6 × 1.5–4 cm, ovate in outline, 3-lobed, the abaxial somewhat more deeply lobed than the adaxial, the lobes lanceolate, acute or subacute, glandular-serrate, rounded-cuneate, truncate or shallowly cordate at the base, 7–9-nerved from the base, pubescent without, glabrous within, pale lemon-yellow to greenish-yellow.
Leaves 5-partite; the median lobe 5.5–11 × 1–2.5 cm, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute at the apex, serrate to subentire, constricted at the base, lateral nerves in 10 pairs; the lateral lobes slightly successively smaller; base of the leaf deeply cordate; stipels 1.5 mm long; pubescence chiefly confined to the midrib, main veins and margins; dark green on leaf uper surface, lighter beneath.
Female flowers subsessile, but developing pedicels up to 1 cm long in fruit; sepals 10–12, sepal rhachis 1 mm long and extending to 1–1.5 cm in fruit, linear, lateral lobules of the sepals 10–11-paired, gland-tipped, pubescent and with urticating hairs; ovary 1 mm in diameter, pubescent; stylar column 0.8–1 cm long, dilated and excavated at the apex.
Male flowers: pedicels 3 mm long; calyx lobes 5, 2 mm long, ovate or lanceolate, subglabrous; stamens c. 25.Female bracts 4, very unequal; the adaxial bracts 1.5 × 2 mm and bifid, the abaxial bracts 2 × 3 mm and bifid to 5 × 3 mm and ovate, the lateral bracts 1–2 × 0.5–1 mm, elliptic; bracts all ciliate.
Monoecious, twining, hairy perennial to 3.5 m. Leaves palmate, 5-lobed, lobes toothed, paler beneath. Flowers crowded in long-peduncled, bisexual, axillary clusters subtended by large, paired, yellowish, leafy bracts.
A scandent undershrub with stems up to 3 m long. Leaves 3-5-lobed or-partite but not divided to base. Male bracts glandular-lacinulate. Flowers yellow.
Male peduncles 5 mm long, involucre 8 mm across, (7)9–11-flowered; mass of fused bracts and aborted flowers adaxial, flattened.
A prostrate creeping or climbing perennial herb; stems up to 3.5 m long from a woody rootstock, hirsute and pubescent.
Seeds 4 × 4 mm, ± smooth, brownish, streaked or mottled with pale grey.
Fruit 5 × 9 mm, ± smooth, hispidulous, reddish-brown or blackish.
Stipules 5–6 mm long, lanceolate.
Petioles 3–6.5 cm long.
