Zehneria minutiflora (Cogn.) C.Jeffrey

Climber to 4.5 m.; stems glabrous or rarely pubescent.. Leaf-blade broadly ovate-cordate, ovate-truncate, pentagonal, narrowly triangular, hastate or sagittate in outline, scabrid-hairy or-punctate above, scabrid-hairy especially on nerves beneath, subentire to distinctly sinuate-toothed, subacute or obtuse and apiculate, 25–75 mm. long, 12–70 mm. broad, unlobed, obscurely lobed or sometimes distinctly 5-lobed; lobes triangular or broadly triangular, with the central largest; petiole rather scabrid-hairy, 6–51 mm. long.. Dioecious.. Male flowers 2–21 in up to 45 mm. pedunculate or rarely sessile subumbelliform clusters; pedicels 3–14 mm. long; receptacle-tube broadly campanulate, 1.5–3.5 mm. long, hairy inside; lobes filiform-subulate, 1 mm. long; petals white, becoming cream then yellow when old, 3.5 mm. long, 1.5–3 mm. broad, united below; stamens 3; filaments long.. Female flowers solitary on 5–31 mm. long pedicels; ovary fusiform, 5–8 mm. long, 1–1.5 mm. across; receptacle-tube 1–3 mm. long, subtruncate at the base; lobes 0.5 mm. long; petals ± 2.5 mm. long and 1.5 mm. broad.. Fruit on a 22–27 mm. long stalk, fusiform, pointed at each end, glabrous, bright red, 11–24 mm. long, 5–8 mm. across.. Seeds ovate in outline, biconvex, compressed, distinctly bordered and with rounded edges, 5 × 2 × 1 mm.. Fig. 21/9, 10, p. 120.