Description

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Growth Form: Shrubs or lianas.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Margins entire to dentate or crenate. Pinnately veined, with 3–5 conspicuous veins spreading from base. Petiolate. Stipules caducous or occasionally persistent.

Flowers: Flowers in terminal or axillary cymes or fascicles, these sometimes arranged in racemose inflorescences, the flowering branches ± with a tendril arising in the leaf axil. Flowers bisexual (perfect) or functionally unisexual, actinomorphic. Calyx of 5 sepals, small, deltate, arising as lobes on floral tube, valvate in bud. Corolla of 5 petals, clawed, embracing and usually concealing a stamen. Stamens 5, opposite the petals; filaments distinct, adnate to base of petals. Ovary inferior, 3(4)-celled; ovules 1 per cell, basal and erect, anatropous; style 3-lobed.

Fruit: Fruit a longitudinally 2–3(4)–winged septicidal schizocarp. Seeds obovoid to ellipsoid.

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