GBIF Taxonomic Backbone & Wikipedia Registry Profile
Description. Slender, low-climbing or trailing, perennial vine 1 - 3 m or more, minutely antrorsely appressed-puberulent throughout with unicellular, curved trichomes, 0.1 - 0.2 mm long, 0.02 - 0.03 mm wide. Flowering stems 1.3 - 2.3 mm in diameter, terete or somewhat compressed. Stipules 1.0 - 4.9 mm long, 0.3 - 0.7 mm wide, narrowly ovate, acute to slightly attenuate, longitudinally striate-nerved; petioles (0.1 -) 0.5 - 3.0 cm long, inserted 1.4 - 7.3 (- 8.9) mm from the basal margins of the peltate blades, with 2, round or elliptic, opposite to subopposite, sessile, discoid nectaries with flat rims, 1.1 - 1.9 mm wide (on the widest axis), 0.3 - 1.0 mm high, borne in the distal third of the petiole (0.63 - 0.87 of the distance from the base toward the apex of the petiole). Laminas 1.1 - 5.8 cm long, 3.4 - 13.7 cm wide, coriaceous, commonly variegated along primary veins and major secondary veins, conspicuously peltate, ratio of leaf width to central vein length measured from point of petiole insertion 2.0 - 5.9, depressed obovate to transversely elliptic (widely divaricately bilobed), lateral lobes 2.6 - 7.3 (- 8.1) cm long, 0.8 - 4.9 cm wide, elliptic, obtuse or acute to slightly attenuate, central lobe commonly obsolete or present as an obtuse to retuse tip, central vein 0.9 - 4.4 (- 5.4) cm long (measured from point of petiole insertion), angle between the lateral lobes 53 - 162 °, ratio of lateral lobe to central vein length 1.3 - 3.0 (- 4.8), margins entire, hyaline, primary veins 3, diverging and branching above base, laminar nectaries present, 6 - 17, submarginal, associated with the minor veins of the abaxial surface, 0.8 - 1.3 mm in diameter, widely elliptic to circular, sessile; tendril 0.4 - 0.8 mm wide, present at flowering node, absent in inflorescence. Flowers borne in leaf axils or inflorescences; inflorescences 4.5 - 22.3 cm long, associated reduced laminas 2.1 - 5.3 mm long, 1.3 - 2.5 mm wide. Pedicels 1.3 - 3.1 (- 9.9) mm long, 0.4 - 1.1 mm wide, (1 -) 2 per node; bract (s) absent; spur (s) absent. Flowers 18.8 - 31.9 mm in diameter with stipe 12.3 - 19.0 (- 23.3) mm long, 0.4 - 0.8 mm wide; hypanthium 4.8 - 8.1 mm in diameter; sepals 6.5 - 12.3 mm long, 3.1 - 6.3 mm wide, ovate-triangular, acute, abaxially and adaxially greenish yellow; coronal filaments in 7 series, the outer 40 - 50, 6.3 - 10.4 mm long, 0.1 - 0.3 mm wide, linear, spreading flat, reflexed above middle and the tips often slightly incurved, very dark reddish purple with yellow at tips, ratio of outer coronal row to sepal length 0.73 - 1.38, the second 35 - 50, 2.3 - 4.8 (- 5.1) mm long, 0.1 - 0.2 mm wide, linear, spreading flat, very dark reddish purple with yellow tips, ratio of second coronal row to outer coronal row length 0.23 - 0.60, the third 40 - 50, 0.8 - 3.0 mm long, 0.06 - 0.13 mm wide, linear, spreading flat, very dark reddish purple with yellow tips, ratio of third coronal row to second coronal row length 0.20 - 0.65, the fourth through seventh ca. 100 per series, 0.6 - 1.3 mm long, 0.1 - 0.2 mm wide, linear, capitate, erect, very dark reddish purple, ratio of coronal rows 4 - 7 to third coronal row length 0.30 - 0.72 (- 0.91); operculum 0.3 - 0.7 mm long, denticulate, very dark reddish purple, nectary absent; limen absent, limen floor 4.7 - 7.1 mm in diameter, very dark reddish purple; androgynophore 2.7 - 4.1 mm long, 0.7 - 1.3 mm wide; free portions of the staminal filaments 2.3 - 3.6 mm long, 0.4 - 0.7 mm wide, linear, very dark red dish purple; anthers 1.6 - 3.1 mm long, 0.7 - 1.7 mm wide, extrorse at anthesis with their axes maintained parallel to the filament; styles 4.1 - 6.3 mm long including stigmas, 0.3 - 0.5 mm wide, greenish yellow with very dark reddish purple tinge; stigmas 0.7 - 1.6 mm in diameter; ovary 1.3 - 3.7 mm long, 1.4 - 2.7 mm wide, widely ellipsoid to globose, greenish yellow. Berry 14.4 - 26.0 mm long, 12.5 - 19.00 mm in diameter, widely ellipsoid to ovoid, greenish yellow with white spots, becoming soft at the base at maturity. Seeds ca. 10, 5.0 - 6.1 mm long, 2.1 - 2.7 mm wide, 1.3 - 1.9 mm thick, widely elliptic in outline, acute at both ends, reticulate-foveate with each face marked with 12 - 24 foveae. Germination type epigeal.
