Climber to 5 m long, glabrescent, leafy stem 2-5 mm diam.; dioecious. Probract ovate or elliptic, 5-8 mm long, subentire, glands present. Tendrils 2-or 3-branched. Leaves: petiole 3-7 cm long; blade greenish on drying, membranous or chartaceous, simple, 3(-5)-lobed, 1/3-3/4 deep, in outline ovate or subcircular, 10-18 by 10-20 cm, sometimes faintly scabrous above and beneath, glands few, scattered or towards the insertion to the petiole, 0.5-1.5 mm diam., cystoliths obvious, base deeply cordate(-hastate), margin inconspicuously or coarsely serrate-dentate; veins 5(-7), ± straight, venation conspicuous beneath. Male raceme at first densely brown hairy; peduncle 5-7.5 cm long, 2-3 mm thick; rachis not thickened but sometimes stout, 5-12 cm long, 10-20-flowered; bracts persistent, broadly obovate-rhomboid, 25-45 by 20-25 mm, margin irregularly and finely incised, 5-15 mm deep, glands numerous, of different size. Male flowers: pedicel c. 5 mm long, caducous; receptacle-tube c. 30 mm long, at throat 7-10 mm wide; sepals (narrowly) ovate, 10-14 mm long, 2-5 mm wide at base, finely and deeply irregularly incised, with few glands; petals (including threads) c. 30 mm long; synandrium not seen. Female flowers not known. Fruit ripening evenly red or red and yellow striped, broadly ovoid, 6-7.5 by 5-6 cm, apex c. 1 mm beaked; exocarp leathery, thin, smooth; pericarp carnose, dry pericarp 10-15 mm thick; pulp green-black; fruiting pedicel 2-2.5 cm long, 2-3 mm thick. Seeds (from PPI 5024) compressed, obovate or narrowly elliptic, 10-12 by 4.5-7 by 2(-3) mm, base narrowly truncate with small midlobe, apex pointed, margin faint or absent, edge entire.
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