Stems prostrate or climbing up on grasses or bushes, longitudinally sulcate, glabrous or somewhat hairy, up to about 1 m long, occasionally longer when prostrate, often much longer when climbing. Leaves: blade 1.3-6 cm by 1.8-11 cm, very variable in shape and size but usually of 5-7, rarely 3-or 9, nearly free, linear or subfiliform to broadly oblanceolate, entire or coarsely pinnatilobed, acute, acuminate to subaristate or obtuse, lobes which are 2-5 cm, occasionally up to 8 cm long, and usually under 1 cm broad, usually more or less lepidote-scabrid with minute broad-based stiff sub-aculeate hairs especially on lower surface and along the margins; petioles always much shorter than the blades, usually under 2 cm long; stipuliform bract absent or suborbicular to flabellate, coarsely and more or less bluntly toothed or with very acute lobes with sometimes a subulate point, sometimes deeply and irregularly dissected, 0-1 cm long and broad but occasionally larger. Male Plant: pedicels solitary or fascicled, slender, under 2 cm long; receptacle narrowly obconical, 1-2 cm long; sepals subulate 1-2 mm long; petals greenish-yellow to olive, triangular to elongate-triangular, acute to more or less attenuate at the apex, usually 5-12 mm long. Female Plant: ovary subglobose to ellipsoid 6-17 mm long; calyx and corolla as in the male. Fruit ovoid-oblong to ellipsoid, usually more or less narrowed into the somewhat pointed apex, bright red when ripe, 2.5-3.5 cm long and 2-2.5 in diam. Seeds few, white, more or less 8 mm long and more or less 5 mm broad.
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A herb. It is a pumpkin family plant. It can lie along the ground or be a climber. It grows 1 m high. It keeps growing from year to year. The stems can have short hairs. It has simple tendrils. It has a large underground tuber. The leaves are 2-6 cm long by 2-11 cm wide. They are broadly oval and often have lobes. Male and female flowers are separate. Male flowers occur singly or in small groups and have short stalks. Female flowers have 1 cm long stalks. The seeds are 8-9 mm long by 5-6 mm wide and 3 mm thick.
Prostrate or scandent perennial herb. Tendrils present. Stems glaucous, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Leaves scabrid-setulose or scabrid-punctate above, otherwise glabrous, petiolate; stipuloid bracts present at base of at least some petioles, reniform or suborbicular, lacini-ate. Corolla lobes 5-13 mm long, not attenuate at apex. Seeds 7.5-9.0 mm long. Flowers yellowish green.
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