Edible fruit. Honey nectar plants. medicinal plant.

Trailing or sometimes scandent annual herbs to 1.5 m; stems hispid. Leaf-blade ovate or broadly ovate, cordate, ± sinuate-dentate, scabrid-setulose or scabrid-punctate, 1.5–6.5 x 1.5–8 cm, unlobed or usually palmately 3–5-lobed, lobes broadly triangular to obovate, obtuse or rounded; petiole hispid-setose, 1–9 cm long. Inflorescences Monoecious. Hypanthium 3–4 mm long, hispid or villous. Sepals linear, 3–7 mm long. corolla Petals yellow, 3–7 mm long. Female flowers solitary Male flowers solitary or in small fascicles. Pedicels 4–10 mm long Pedicels 2.5–7 mm long. Ovary ellipsoid, 4–10 mm long, densely finely puberulous and usually also with some longer forward-pointing hairs. Fruit ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, 4–6 x 2–4 cm, smooth, green to white with darker green longitudinal stripes, yellow when ripe, shortly pubescent; flesh bitter or non-bitter. Seeds elliptic in outline, c. 4.2 mm long. Flowering from September-October.

Cultivated places and farms.