Diplocyclos tenuis (Klotzsch) C.Jeffrey

Perennial climber or trailer to 3 m.; stems herbaceous, glabrous, obscurely mottled with darker green or ± concolorous, becoming white-punctate on the ridges when older.. Leaf-blade broadly ovate-cordate in outline, membranous, punctate, 35–110 mm. long, 38–135 mm. broad, palmately 3–7-lobed; lobes elliptic, usually distinctly narrowed below, entire or sinuate with small apiculate teeth and often rounded-lobulate or lobulate-dentate; petiole glabrous or with forward-pointing aculeate hairs, 17–56 mm. long.. Male flowers 1–8 in sessile or shortly pedunculate clusters intermixed with 0–1 ♀ flowers; pedicels 14–48 mm. long; receptacle-tube 2.5–4 mm. long; lobes triangular-subulate to lanceolate, spreading, 0.5–2 mm. long; corolla white or pale cream with green veins, with lobes 5–11 mm. long, 2.7–5 mm. broad, united below.. Female flowers 1–3 mixed with 0–3 ♂ flowers; pedicels 2–6 mm. long; ovary long-ovoid, 9–13 mm. long, 1.5–4 mm. across; receptacle-tube 1.8–3 mm. long; lobes triangular, recurved, 1–2 mm. long; corolla-lobes ± 8 mm. long and 3 mm. broad, united below.. Fruits solitary or paired on 2–7 mm. long stalks, red with eight paler greyish-white interrupted longitudinal lines or lines of spots, or drying out papery and brownish, elongated-ovoid, 24–41 mm. long, 12–24 mm. across.. Seeds 3.5–4.5 × 2–2.5 × 2–3 mm.. Fig. 9, p. 72.