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Scrambling or climbing, more dense and stout (than above), perennial herb, up to 3 m high; stems 4-ribbed, with strong, recurved prickles. Leaves and stipules similar; petioles 10-30 mm long; blades ovate-lanceolate to broadly ovate, acute at apex; upper surface glabrous, margins and veins below with conspicuous recurved prickles. Flowers in few-to several-flowered axillary and terminal cymes. Corolla campanulate, greenish; lobes ± triangular, acuminate. Flowering time Nov.-May. Fruit blackish, of 2 mericarps up to 3 mm in diam.
Perennial herb, climber or scrambler. Stems up to 3 m long. Leaves in whorls of 6-8(9), petiolate; blade length/width ratio < 3:1; blade narrowly ovate to broadly ovate, up to 30 x 15 mm, base rounded to cordate, 3 veins prominent. Flowers: few to several per inflorescence; corolla mostly 5-merous, greenish, yellowish green to yellow, 3-5 mm in diameter; Dec.-Feb. Fruit with mericarps 2.4-3.0 mm in diameter, fleshy, blackish, glabrous.
A prickly herb or shrub. It grows 3 m tall. The stems are 4 angled. The leaves are in rings of 6-8. The flowers are in groups in the axils of leaves. They are green.
Prickly, scrambling perennial to 3 m, stems 4-angled. Leaves in whorls of 6-8, ovate, petiolate, 3-veined from base. Flowers in axillary cymes, greenish.
