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| Distribution | Native to and very widespread in the American subtropics and tropics and the West Indies.
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Habit
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Herbaceous vines; stems angled, striate.
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Leaves
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Leaves membranous, polymorphic, blades lanceolate to sometimes ovate, 2.8-10.7(-14) cm long, 1.4-4(-9) cm wide, entire or shallowly to deeply 3-lobed, pubescent or glabrous, petioles 0.3-1.5 cm long, with 2 paired, stalked nectaries ca. 1 mm long and wide near apex, stipules linear-lanceolate, 3-4 mm long.
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Flowers
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Flowers campanulate, 0.5-2.4 cm in diameter, peduncles usually paired, 0.9-1.7 cm long; hypanthium ca. 0.1 cm long; sepals greenish white; petals absent; corona white or white with purple base.
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Fruit
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Berries dark purple at maturity, globose, 0.6-1.9 cm in diameter, aril white.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 12, 18, 24*, 36
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