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Forests, sand, quartzite, partial shade. Sub-Escarpment Grassland, Sub-Escarpment Savanna, Indian Ocean Coastal Belt, Indigenous Forests, Drakensberg Grassland, Eastern Fynbos-Renosterveld, Albany Thicket. Forest margins. Forest climber. Forest margins. Forest climber.

Herbaceous climber. Leaf blade palmately 5-7-lobed, lobes acuminate, margins serrate. Fruit an elongated ribbed capsule up to 80 mm long, several-seeded. Flowers yellowish green. Herbaceous climber, glabrous. Leaf-blade palmately 5-7-lobed with lobes acuminate and margins serrate, 3-14 cm long, 3-12 cm wide; petiole 2-14 cm long. Male flowers yellowish-green. Sepals filiform-linear, 2.5-3 mm long, 0.2 mm wide, slightly swollen at apex, spreading. Corolla-tube 3.5-5 mm long; lobes slightly shorter than the tube, ovate-oblong, ciliate, cohering together by the cilia giving the corolla an urceolate appearance. Glands linear or obovate, 2 mm long, fleshy. Stamens with linear filaments, 5-6 mm long, dilated upwards; anthers oblong, c. 3 mm long, cohering, reflexed at apex. Female flowers yellowish-green. Corolla-tube 2-3.5 mm long; lobes 2-3 mm long. Glands narrowly ovate, up to 1.5 mm long, fleshy. Ovary stipitate, linear-elongate, 3-4 mm long; styles short, 2-lobed with recurved lobes. Fruit elongated, cylindrical up to 8 cm long, 0.8 cm wide, tapered at both ends. Seeds subglobose to oblong, 3-4 mm diam., tuberculate. Monoecious herbaceous climber. Leaves palmately 5-7-lobed, toothed. Flowers axillary, male flowers in racemes, female flowers solitary, greenish. Fruits cylindrical. Shrub or climber, with or without tendrils, ± 0.4 m high. Leaves palmately 5-7-lobed, lobes acuminate and serrate; long-petioled. Male flowers in short racemes; sepals 4 or 5, linear, spreading; corolla 4- or 5-lobed, campanulate, lobes ovate-oblong, ciliate; stamens 5, arising at base of corolla tube, alternating with ellipsoid glands, filaments slightly dilated upwards, anthers oblong, cohering. Female flowers solitary; calyx rudimentary; corolla as for male; glands 5, linear, ± 3/4 length of corolla tube; ovary shortly stalked; styles 4, short, 2-lobed. Flowering time Feb.-May. Fruit 4- or 5-valved, elongate, ribbed capsule. Herbaceous climber, glabrous. Leaf-blade palmately 5-7-lobed with lobes acuminate and margins serrate, 3-14 cm long, 3-12 cm wide; petiole 2-14 cm long. Male flowers yellowish-green. Sepals filiform-linear, 2.5-3 mm long, 0.2 mm wide, slightly swollen at apex, spreading. Corolla-tube 3.5-5 mm long; lobes slightly shorter than the tube, ovate-oblong, ciliate, cohering together by the cilia giving the corolla an urceolate appearance. Glands linear or obovate, 2 mm long, fleshy. Stamens with linear filaments, 5-6 mm long, dilated upwards; anthers oblong, c. 3 mm long, cohering, reflexed at apex. Female flowers yellowish-green. Corolla-tube 2-3.5 mm long; lobes 2-3 mm long. Glands narrowly ovate, up to 1.5 mm long, fleshy. Ovary stipitate, linear-elongate, 3-4 mm long; styles short, 2-lobed with recurved lobes. Fruit elongated, cylindrical up to 8 cm long, 0.8 cm wide, tapered at both ends. Seeds subglobose to oblong, 3-4 mm diam., tuberculate. Monoecious herbaceous climber. Leaves palmately 5-7-lobed, toothed. Flowers axillary, male flowers in racemes, female flowers solitary, greenish. Fruits cylindrical. Shrub or climber, with or without tendrils, ± 0.4 m high. Leaves palmately 5-7-lobed, lobes acuminate and serrate; long-petioled. Male flowers in short racemes; sepals 4 or 5, linear, spreading; corolla 4- or 5-lobed, campanulate, lobes ovate-oblong, ciliate; stamens 5, arising at base of corolla tube, alternating with ellipsoid glands, filaments slightly dilated upwards, anthers oblong, cohering. Female flowers solitary; calyx rudimentary; corolla as for male; glands 5, linear, ± 3/4 length of corolla tube; ovary shortly stalked; styles 4, short, 2-lobed. Flowering time Feb.-May. Fruit 4- or 5-valved, elongate, ribbed capsule.

A forest climber distributed from Wilderness in the south-eastern Cape, into Natal and Swaziland, and northwards as far as Duiwelskloof in the northern Transvaal. Knysna to Limpopo. Knysna to Limpopo.