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Slender, much-branched shrub or scrambler, up to 7 m high. Branches, when young, patently hairy. Leaves with blade ovate to broadly ovate, up to 130 x 100 mm, 5-9-lobed, apices of lobes long-acuminate, acute or blunt, base cordate, margins irregularly crenate; petioles up to 150 mm long, patently hairy. Flowers: in ± 20-flowered extra-axillary pedunculate umbels towards the ends of branches, peduncles and pedicels patently hairy; sepals narrowly ovate, 10-15 mm long; petals 4, obovate, ± 25 x 15 mm, white or yellowish white; Nov.-Jul.
Slender shrub, 0.5-3.0 m high; stems with spreading simple or stellate hairs. Leaves lobed ± halfway, base cordate or cordate-sagittate, margins crenate-dentate. Inflorescences of 6-20-flowered extra-axillary or leaf-opposed umbels; peduncles pubescent. Flowers ± 10 mm long, white. Sepals lorate, green on outside, white or purplish inside. Petals oblanceolate. Flowering time Dec.-Mar. Fruit an ellipsoid 4-or 5-valved capsule, with rigid bristles ± 10 mm long.
Leaf-lamina 3–13 × 1·5–10 cm., 3–7-lobed cordate or cordate-sagittate and 5–7-nerved at the base, lobed about half-way to three-quarters, middle lobe the longest; lobes, or at least the middle one long-acuminate, inciso-sinuate, crenate-dentate and often with secondary lobing; with stellate or simple pubescence on both surfaces or with a mixture of both; petiole up to 8 cm. long, pubescent; stipules up to 8 mm. long, setaceous, pubescent.
Inflorescences of extra-axillary or leaf-opposed 6–20-flowered umbels; peduncles elongated and up to 8 cm. long, pubescent; pedicels pubescent, articulated in the upper half and more densely pubescent above the articulation; bracts up to 7 mm. long, subulate to lanceolate, pubescent.
Capsule 2–2·5 × 1·5–2 cm. including the bristles, ellipsoid, 4–5-valved, covered with rigid bristles, sparsely stellate-pubescent; loculi opening from the apex.
Stamens many (c. 50), filamentous, c. 8 mm. long, the majority with numerous nodose swellings along the filament, a few outer ones sometimes sterile.
A shrub. It grows 3 m high. It can be a scrambler. The petals are white. The outer stamens are sterile and yellow. The fertile filaments are purple.
Slender shrub, scrambler, 3 m high. Leaves up to 130 x 100 mm, lobes long-acuminate. Sepals 10 mm long. Flowers white.
Slender shrub or scrambler, up to 3 m. tall; stems slender, with spreading simple hairs and shorter stellate hairs.
Sepals c. 10 mm. long, lorate, subacute at the apex, pubescent and green on the back, white or purplish inside.
Petals white, the same length as the sepals or slightly longer, oblanceolate to oblanceolate-oblong.
Ovary ovoid, echinulate-setulose; style 7–8 mm. long, slender, glabrous; stigma shortly 5-toothed.
Seeds dark brown, 2·5 × 1·5 mm. ellipsoidally biconical.
