Cyclantheropsis parviflora (Cogn.) Harms

parviflora: small-flowered

Perennial climber, stems becoming woody when old. Leaves ovate to reniform, cordate, semi-succulent, sometimes shallowly 3-5 lobed. Inflorescences axillary, unisexual, male flowers in many-flowered inflorescences, female inflorescences few-flowered, greenish-yellow. Fruit oblong, leathery, flattened, winged, brownish when ripe.

Local

Eastern and southern tropical Africa from Ethiopia south to Angola