Climber to 10 m long, early glabrescent, at first with sparse minute hairs, leafy stem 1.5-3 mm diam.; dioecious. Probract ovate, ± flat, 3-5 by 3 mm, glands present. Tendrils (unbranched or) 2-branched. Leaves: petiole 2-5 cm long; petiolules 0.3-0.7 cm long; blade green on drying, subchartaceous or membranous, simple and unlobed or 3-foliolate; unlobed blade in outline ovate-oblong or hastate, 10-20 by 6-10 cm, foliolate blade in outline circular, middle leaflet 10-12 by 3-3.5 cm, base cuneate, faintly scabrous above, glands several, scattered, 0.5(-1) mm diam., cystoliths obvious, margin entire or sparsely minutely dentate; unlobed blades with 3(-5) curved veins, leaflets pinniveined. Male raceme minutely rust-hairy; peduncle 2.5-4 cm long, c. 3 mm thick; rachis somewhat thickened, with bract-scars, 7-11 cm long, 8-15-flowered; bracts subpersistent, narrowly elliptic, 15-25 mm long, margin deeply incised to c. 1/3 deep, with glands. Male flowers (from buds): pedicel 2-3 mm long; sepals narrowly triangular, 5-7 mm long, entire. Female flowers not known. Fruit ripening red (possibly not paler striped), ovoid, 6.5 by 4.5 cm, apex c. 2 mm beaked; exocarp thick-leathery, smooth; dry pericarp c. 5 mm thick; pulp greenish black; fruiting pedicel 2-7 cm long, 3-4 mm thick. Seeds blackish, compressed, elliptic, 12-13 by 4-7 by 2-3 mm, margin absent, edge entire.
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A pumpkin family plant. It is a climber. It grows 10 m long. The leafy stem is 2-3 mm wide. The leaves are oval and 6.5 cm long by 4,5 cm wide. The fruit are red when ripe. The seeds are blackish.
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