Compilation
Adenopus breviflorus

Climber to 6 m.; stem herbaceous, glabrous or puberulous. Leaf-blade ovate-triangular, broadly ovate or ovate-suborbicular in outline, shallowly cordate or subtruncate at the base, ± scabrid-punctate above, thinly hairy beneath, 75–200 mm. long, 55–230 mm. broad, usually palmately 3–5-lobed; lobes triangular or ovate-triangular and broadest at the base, or ovate to lanceolate and ± narrowed below, remotely and obscurely to very distinctly and somewhat jaggedly sinuate-toothed, apiculate; petiole varyingly pubescent, 15–82 mm. long, with a prominent apical pair of lateral pointed glands (see fig. 6/2). Tendrils simple or bifid. Dioecious. Male flowers in 2–20-flowered racemes on 45–220 mm. long peduncles, or very rarely solitary or paired in the axils; pedicels 6–85 mm. long, subtended by small (3–8 mm. long) obovate bracts; receptacle-tube very shortly and finely puberulous, cylindrical, 24–49 mm. long; lobes 4–9 mm. long; petals white, opening in the evenings, obovate, 35–45 mm. long, 27–32 mm. broad; anthers oblong, coherent in centre of flower; thecae triplicate and also convoluted. Female flowers on 20–32 mm. long stalks; ovary ellipsoid, hairy, ± 12–17 mm. long and 8 mm. across; receptacle-tube very shallow; lobes 4–8 mm. long, entire or marginally toothed; petals obovate, ± 32 mm. long and 22 mm. broad. Fruit on a 22–37 mm. long stalk, subspherical, 78–80 mm. long, 64–68 mm. across, green with yellow-green to whitish transverse flecks and patches, hard-shelled, fleshy, indehiscent, with yellowish pulp. Seeds ovate-pyriform in outline, compressed, slightly 2-horned at the broader end, flat-margined, ± 9 × 5 × 2 mm.