Vines; stems puberulent when young, glabrescent. Leaves suborbicular, 10-24 cm long, nearly or equally as wide as long, shallowly 3-to 5-lobate, the lobes acute, cordate at the base, chartaceous, the margin undulate denticulate, botb the surfaces with white pustular dots, puberulent on the veins, at least near the base; petioles slender, 4-15 cm long. Staminate flowers solitary, axillary; hypan-thium campanulate, 6-8 mm long, ashy tomentose; calyx lobes 9-12 mm long, broadly lanceolate, ashy tomentose, reflexed; corolla almost fleshy, the lobes ca. 2 cm long, the outer surface tomentose, the inner surface papillate, 5-nerved; stamens glabrous, the filaments 3-5 mm long, ? as long as the flexuous anthers; peduncle 2-5 cm long. Pistillate flowers with the perianth as in the staminate flowers; ovary oblong ovoid, glabrate, 5-6 cm long, the style ca. 1 cm long, the stigma capitate, 8-10 mm wide; staminodes 4-5 mm long. Fruits yellow, red, purplish, or dark green, oblong ovoid or cylindric, 30-60 cm long, glabrous, very fragrant; seeds oblong ovate, compressed, marginate, ca. 1 cm long and nearly as wide.
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A pumpkin family plant. It is a vine. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 15 m long. The vine is hairy. The leaves are large and round with lobes. They are 25-30 cm across. The flowers occur singly. They are separately male and female. They occur in the axils of leaves. The fruit is 30-35 cm long and 12-16 cm wide. There are many seeds. There can be 800-850 per fruit.
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