Anredera
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Twining vines; rhizomes sometimes with fleshy tubers. Leaves petiolate; blade ovate or elliptical, glabrous, sometimes succulent. Inflorescences axillary (sometimes terminal), pendent, of sparingly (1- to 3)branched racemes, lax; pedicels short, slender; bract linear; flower subtended by 2 bracteoles. Tepals basally connate, white; stamens 5, inserted at base of tepals, filaments white, hyaline, flattened, curved in bud, anthers oblong, versatile or basifixed; styles and stigmas 3. Fruit a globose utricle enclosed by perianth and accrescent bracteoles.