Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Climbing or prostrate, monoecious,
herbs. Leaves simple, petiolate. Tendrils simple. Flowers very small.
Male flowers in sessile fascicles, shortly pedicellate. Corolla lobes
5, united below. Stamens 3, two 2-thecous, one single 1-thecous.
Female flowers also in sessile fascicles, ± sessile or shortly
pedicellate; staminodes 3, stigma 3-lobed. Fruit spherical (in ours), smooth, red, usually glabrous when mature.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Mukia Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1433
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
