Description: Climber or scrambling shrub, usually with scattered inconspicuous simple hairs especially on young growth and inflorescences.
Leaves 3-foliolate, petiolate; leaflets petiolulate, entire or toothed.
Flowers sessile in small pedunculate heads forming simple racemes of few-branched panicles; petals 5, imbricate in bud; stamens 5; ovary 2-locular; styles 2, becoming separate.
Fruit a succulent drupe, crowned by the persistent calyx and styles.
Distribution and occurrence: World: 1 species, endemic Australia. Australia: 1 species, endemic.
Text by M. J. Henwood & R. O. Makinson
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