Information

Shrub or shrubby tree to 6 m, glabrous; main stem mostly thick, soft-woody, branched or not, up to 2 x 0,6 m; branches shrubby or lianoid, provided with tendrils. Leaves some grey-green or glaucous, punctate or not be­neath, simple or 3-5-foliolate, in outline ovate to suborbicular, base (sub)cordate, 1-8 X 1-8 cm, (1-) 3-5-plinerved; petiole (0,3-) 1-5 cm; leaflets (or lobes) orbicular, ovate or obovate, base rounded to attenuate, apex subacute to broadly rounded, rarely retuse, 1-6 X 1-4 (-6) cm, ± penninerved; margin entire; petiolule 0-5 (-7) mm. Gland at blade-base 1, on a fleshy ± upward curved median lobelet at the top of the petiole; no other glands present. Stipules narrowly triangular, c. 0,5 mm. Inflorescences either solitary in the leaf-axils, or grouped in short-shoots, peduncled up to c. 1 cm, 2-5-flowered in cj, 1-3-flowered in 9; tendrils 0; sterile tendrils 3-12 cm, sometimes breaking off and leaving a thorn-like structure. Male flowers campanulate, including the 0,5-5 mm long stipe 9—17 mm; hypanthium cup-shaped, 1-2,5 x 2,5-4,5 mm; calyx-tube 0; sepals lanceolate, obtusish, 7-9 (-10) mm, (sub)entire; peta