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Stems slender, annual, prostrate or scandent, rather sparsely hispid-spiculate. Leaf-lamina 1–4·5 × 1–6·5 cm., membraneous, ovate or broadly ovate in outline, cordate, shortly asperulous above, hispid or scabrid beneath especially on the veins, plane or remotely and obscurely to coarsely sinuate-denticulate at the margins, shallowly to rather deeply palmately 3–5-lobed, lobes ovate-triangular or ovate to elliptic, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute to obtuse or rounded, shortly apiculate, the central largest. Petioles 1–6·5 cm. long, shortly rather finely hispid or scabrid with spreading or recurved hairs. Monoecious. male flowers solitary or rarely 2–3 together; pedicels 11–30 mm. long, slender. Receptacle-tube 3–5 mm. long, obconic; lobes 0·5–1·5(5) mm. long, filiform. Petals 3·5–7 mm. long, yellow. female flowers on 11–24 mm. long pedicels; ovary 4–6 × 1·5–2·5 mm., ovoid or ovoid-rostrate, densely hirsute; perianth similar to that of male flowers. Fruit 2–3 × 1·3–1·5 cm., ellipsoid, terete, obtuse, fleshy, smooth, glabrous or sparsely setulose, dark green with irregular longitudinal whitish bands; fruit-stalk 3–4 cm. long. Seeds c. 3·2 × 2 × 0·5 mm., ovate in outline, compressed, smooth, bordered.