Kedrostis crassirostrata Bremek.

Most probably perennial with an underground tuberous rootstock, glabrous in all vegetative parts or nearly so. Stems annual, climbing, herbaceous, up to about 2 m long, slender, geniculate at the nodes, sulcate; internodes usually 4-5 cm long. Leaves subsessile, somewhat fleshy drying thin and papery, the lamina suborbicular in outline, white-punctate above, smooth below, 2-7 cm in diam., digitately 3-5-lobed with pinnatifid segments; the ultimate lobes oblong to linear, mucronate, with the margin usually more or less reflexed below, up to 25 mm long and 0.5-2 mm, rarely 3 mm wide. Male flowers subumbellately racemose; common peduncle rather stout, up to about 5 mm long, usually ebracteolate at the base, articulate at the apex; receptacle widely campanulate, glabrous, about 1 mm long and 2 mm in diam.; sepals patent, triangular-subulate or lanceolate, usually a little longer than the receptacle, very acute; petals ovate or oblong, acute, about 1.5 mm long, papillose-hairy on the back. Female flowers solitary in the same axils as the males, subsessile; ovary from a lageniform or ellipsoid basal portion long-rostrate, densely papillose-hairy, about 4 mm long; calyx and corolla as in the male. Fruit on an incrassate up to 2.5 mm long peduncle, ovoid-lageniform or obpyriform, rounded at the base, glabrous and red when ripe, rostrate with a conical acute or obtuse rostrum, with longitudinal faint ribs, 1-5 seeded, 15-25 mm long (of which a little less than half is taken up by the rostrum) and 8-15 mm in diam. Seeds brown, broadly ellipsoid with a slightly attenuate and truncate base, very slightly rugose, laterally margined, 4-5 mm long.