Monoecious . Scandent herb or soft woody climber , up to 4 m long , with tuberous root . Stems glabrous , with a papery bark . Leaves ovate to reniform , deeply 3-5-lobed , lobes 3-lobulate , finely shortly hispid , base cordate , margins ± dentate-sinuate , petiolate ; tendrils simple . Inflorescence peduncles 1-6(-15) cm long . Flowers 2 mm across , velvet-hairy ; male flowers several in pedunculate clusters ; female flowers solitary in the axils of leaves ; sepals oblong-lanceolate ; petals oblong , greenish-yellow to pale yellow . Fruit glabrous , ovoid or ellipsoid , rostrate , with a slender apical beak , green with dark to pale green spots , becoming red when ripe except for the green cup at the base . Seeds asymmetrically ovod , 4-4 . 5 mm long . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 1) .
No Data
Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Aechmandra epigaea (Rottler) Arn.
Bryonia epigaea Rottler
Rhynchocarpa epigaea (Rottler) Naudin
No data
maintenanceAr.Item1
Redfruit Creeper
Not used traditionally
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *https://casabio.org *https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu *https://plants.jstor.org *Pickering, H. Patzelt, A. (2008). Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. ISBN 9781842461778. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
