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Perennial herb or climber, 0.3-5.0 m high; roots with thick tubers, stems long, flexuose. Ocreae with conspicuous venation. Leaves long-petiolate, hastate, basal lobes divergent with acute apex; upper leaf segment widely ovate, up to 100 x 50 mm, apex acuminate. Inflorescences wide, open, primary branches at right angles to axis, repeatedly branched. Flowers in few-flowered whorls. Flowering time July-Apr. Fruiting pedicels filiform, articulate in lower 1/3. Fruiting valves up to 7 x 9 mm, from a cordate base, thin, membranous, pink tinged purple. Fruit a pale brown nut.
Outer perianth segments brownish, 1.75–2.5 mm, oblong-lanceolate, membranous, later reflexing; inner perianth segments of female flowers pale brown to reddish-pink, pellucid, 4–7 × 8–10 mm, bearing a ramified protuberance at the base, wing-like in fruit, cordate, emarginate at the base, entire on the margin, membranous, reticulate-veined, without tubercles or with a minute dorsal tubercle near the base.
Perennial herb. Stems annual, scrambling or scandent, up to 2 m long. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate-triangular, up to 100 x 50 mm, base sagittate, lobes acute or obtuse; petioles as long as or shorter than blade. Ocrea entire. Flowers: borne in few-flowered whorls; perianth green, pink or red; Sep.-Mar. Fruit with valves suborbicular, reddish brown, without well-developed callosity.
Sprawling or climbing, usually dioecious perennial. Leaves sagittate, margins undulate, often minutely crisped, with short, papery stipules. Flowers in stalked clusters forming large panicles, white. Fruits tiny, enclosed in enlarged, orbicular sepals forming wings 5-8 mm diam., articulated near pedicel base.
A creeper. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 2 m high. The leaves are smooth and arrow-shaped. They are 3-7 cm long. They are pale green and soft. The flowers develop clusters of papery capsules. These are about 1 cm wide. They change from pale green to reddish-brown.
Leaf lamina 4–10 × 3–5 cm, triangular and hastate-sagittate, acute at the apex; basal lobes ± divergent, acute or obtuse, palmately nerved, glabrous; petiole as long as or shorter than the lamina.
Flowers generally unisexual and on separate plants, pedicellate, in few-flowered whorls borne in leafless terminal panicles; pedicels up to 6 mm long, slender, articulated near the base.
Perennial climber. Leaves sagittate. Fruit valves subor-bicular, reddish tinged. Flowers green, pink or red.
A scrambling, sometimes scandent dioecious perennial herb, with a fleshy taproot.
Stems annual, up to 2 m long, hollow, flexuose-striate, yellowish when dry.
Nut pale brown, shiny, (2.5)3 × 1.3 mm, sharply trigonous.
Stamens 6; filaments filiform; anthers cylindrical.
Ocrea 0.7–2 cm long, striate, entire.
Ovary 2 × 0.8 mm, trigonous.
