Woody plant, hermaphrodite, perennial, which can exceed 10 m in height climbing trees and rocks through its aerial adventitious roots. The stems are tortuous and from which a main trunk ends up standing out. Twigs dark red when young, changing to cinnamon or pale greenish-brown when older, nearly glabrous; they have trichomes with 4 to 9 rays; rays 0.05 to 0.15 mm, hyaline, central part reddish. The leaves (25-90 \u00d7 20-100 mm) are usually five-lobed (rarely with 3 or 4 lobes), with apical lobe acute to subacute; heteromorphic: chordate base in juveniles, then subtruncated and cuneate in adults (sometimes they are indistinguishable, that is, homeomorphic). The juvenile leaves have petioles of 20-130 mm, with few trichomes, similar to those of the stem. Inflorescence terminal, umbelliform, dense. Flowers small, greenish. Calyx very small, hardly visible, with 5 tiny sepals \u00b1 triangular. Corolla with 5 petals triangular-lanceolate, first open in a star shape, then folded backwards. Alternating with the petals, there are 5 stamens with greenish-whitish anthers. Fruit fleshy, subglobose, with a mucronate cap on top (actually it is the upper cover of the ovary), of an intense black color; contains 3-5 seeds inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13578","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n