Muehlenbeckia gracillima

Slender twiner, stems ascending, to 2 m long or more, glabrous or with scattered papillae or tubercles. Leaves ovate to triangular, 2–8 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, apex acuminate, base more or less sagittate, margins finely and irregularly crisped; petioles often subequal to blade. Flowers in small clusters within very slender, interrupted, spike-like or commonly branched inflorescences 5–15 cm long, pedicels mostly shortly exceeding the subtending bract; perianth segments free almost to base, yellow-green, 1–2 mm long, slightly longer in fruit in female flowers but remaining membranous. Nut broadly ovoid, 2–2.5 mm long, obscurely 3-ribbed, finely wrinkled or warted, black. Flowers mostly Nov.–Mar.