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Leaf-lamina 4·7–10·7 × 5·0–10·4 cm., ovate to broadly ovate in outline, deeply cordate, remotely denticulate to sinuate-serrate, finely punctate and shortly and finely pubescent on veins beneath, finely pubescent or asperulous above, unlobed or usually shortly palmately 3–5-lobed, the median lobe largest, broadly triangular to ovate, acuminate, acute, apiculate; lateral lobes much shorter.
Female flowers solitary or paired; peduncle up to 6·2 cm. long, bracteate at apex; bract 7 mm. long; pedicel 3 mm. long; ovary 16–30 × 5–8 mm., ovoid or ellipsoid, rostrate, longitudinally ridged, finely puberulous, the ridges wing-like, toothed; receptacle-tube very short, 1 mm. long, lobes 6–13 mm. long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acutely-acuminate; petals 17–26 mm. long.
Seeds 16–16·5 × 12·8–13 × 6·5–7·0 mm., asymmetrically ovate in outline, subcompressed, brown, almost smooth, with grooved margins, enveloped in sheaths of fleshy pulp.
Stems prostrate or scandent to 10 m., sparsely to very densely shortly and finely crispate-pubescent, arising from large woody tuberous rootstock; all parts foetid.
Fruit c. 9 × 5 cm., ellipsoid, shortly rostrate, with 16 longitudinal wing-like ridges; fruit stalk 1 cm. or more long, stout.
Petiole 2·1–9·2 cm. long, rather densely shortly finely pubescent.
Flowers monoecious.
Tendrils 2-fid.
Leaves simple.
