| General Information |
| Distribution | Native to the dry American tropics and subtropics.In the Hawaiian Islands,
naturalized on
Ni`ihau, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Vine with sticky, strong-smelling foliage; stems hispid-hirsute, climbing by tendrils or sprawling.
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Leaves
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Leaves petiolate; blade 2.3‒8 cm long, 2‒8 cm wide, strongly to weakly 3-lobed, both surfaces sparsely to densely hispid-hirsute with short or long hairs, secondary veins with 1(2) pairs radiating from base, margin and petiole pubescent with glandular hairs, giving the plant a foetid odor; petiole 1‒3 cm long; stipules and bracts deeply pinnately dissected.
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Flowers
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Flowers campanulate, 2.6‒4.8 cm in diameter; sepals and petals white or faintly purple-tinged; hypanthium 0.4‒0.7 cm long; corona white, or distally lavender or purple, filamentous.
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Fruit
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Fruit yellow or red, globose, 1.8‒2.8 cm long, 1.5‒3.5 cm wide, glabrous or finely hirsute.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 18, 20*, 22.
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Contributor
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Nancy Khan
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