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Trailing perennial herb to 3 m or more; rootstock tuberous. Leaf-blade elongate-ovate in outline, stiff, scabrid, 2.5–11 x 2.5–6.5 cm, palmately deeply 3–5-lobed, the lobes deeply pinnately lobulate, petiole 1–7 cm long, retrorsely hispid or scabrid. Tendrils usually simple. Male flowers solitary. Pedicel 8–20 mm long. Hypanthium broadly obconic, 1.5–2.5 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 2–4 mm long. Petals greenish-yellow, obovate, 8–15 mm long. Female flowers solitary. Pedicel 10–45 mm long. Ovary subglobose. Hypanthium very short. Perianth like that of male flowers. Fruit subglobose, smooth, green, longitudinally mottled with darker green, ripening yellow, 5–12 cm in diam.; flesh white, very bitter. Pedicel up to 5.5 cm long. Seeds ovate in outline, dark brown, smooth, 6–10 x 3.5–5 x 2–2.5 mm.

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Trailing perennial herb to 3 m or more; rootstock tuberous. Leaf-blade elongate-ovate in outline, stiff, scabrid, 2.5–11 x 2.5–6.5 cm, palmately deeply 3–5-lobed, the lobes deeply pinnately lobulate, petiole 1–7 cm long, retrorsely hispid or scabrid. Tendrils usually simple. Male flowers solitary. Pedicel 8–20 mm long. Hypanthium broadly obconic, 1.5–2.5 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 2–4 mm long. Petals greenish-yellow, obovate, 8–15 mm long. Female flowers solitary. Pedicel 10–45 mm long. Ovary subglobose. Hypanthium very short. Perianth like that of male flowers. Fruit subglobose, smooth, green, longitudinally mottled with darker green, ripening yellow, 5–12 cm in diam.; flesh white, very bitter. Pedicel up to 5.5 cm long. Seeds ovate in outline, dark brown, smooth, 6–10 x 3.5–5 x 2–2.5 mm.

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Trailing perennial herb to 3 m or more; rootstock tuberous. Leaf-blade elongate-ovate in outline, stiff, scabrid, 2.5–11 x 2.5–6.5 cm, palmately deeply 3–5-lobed, the lobes deeply pinnately lobulate, petiole 1–7 cm long, retrorsely hispid or scabrid. Tendrils usually simple. Male flowers solitary. Pedicel 8–20 mm long. Hypanthium broadly obconic, 1.5–2.5 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 2–4 mm long. Petals greenish-yellow, obovate, 8–15 mm long. Female flowers solitary. Pedicel 10–45 mm long. Ovary subglobose. Hypanthium very short. Perianth like that of male flowers. Fruit subglobose, smooth, green, longitudinally mottled with darker green, ripening yellow, 5–12 cm in diam.; flesh white, very bitter. Pedicel up to 5.5 cm long. Seeds ovate in outline, dark brown, smooth, 6–10 x 3.5–5 x 2–2.5 mm.