Description
Climbers, perennial;
Leaves:
Flowers whitish or yellowish green, solitary or fascicled, arranged in racemes, or subpaniculate;
Fruit ovoid or subglobose, berry-like, with 3-12 seeds.
Seeds little compressed, mostly smooth, margin absent, edge entire.
Distribution
Africa present, Asia-Tropical, Madagascar present, neotropics present
About 50 species in the Neotropics, few species in Africa, including Madagascar; in Malesia: 1 introduced and naturalized species.
Citation
C.Jeffrey 1971 – In: Kew Bull.: 201
Cogn. 1881 – In: A.DC. & C.DC., Monogr. Phan. 3: 738
Pax 1889 – In: Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 4: 34
