Compilation
Adenia ellenbeckii

Suberect or climbing or prostrate herb, with shoots 20–150 cm tall, growing from an erect succulent stem up to 30(–60) cm tall, from a tuberous rootstock; tendrils up to 10 cm long; whole plant usually ± pubescent. Leaves entire to mostly deeply palmately 3–5(–7)-lobed or pinnatifid, mostly ovate in outline, cuneate to cordate at the base, 2–17 cm long, 3–5-nerved from the base; margin variously dentate or dissected; petiole 1–7 cm; glands at base of blade 2, mostly sessile at each side of petiole; glands on blade often present. Inflorescences 1–10-flowered in male plants, 1–3-flowered in female plants, without or with a tendril 2–10 cm long. Male flowers tubular, including stipe 20–50 mm long, 3–6 mm wide. Hypanthium including calyx tube 14–45 mm long; calyx-lobes 3–6 mm long, with woolly fringed edge. Petals lanceolate, 5–8(–11) mm long, fringed, inserted in calyx-tube. Corona absent or consisting of but a few hairs. Female flowers tubular, 12–35 mm long; pistil 4–10 mm long on short gynophore; styles united for 0–4 mm. Fruit globose, on short gynophore, 2–4.5(–5) cm in diam., leathery, rather fleshy inside. Seeds 6.5–8 mm long.