Commicarpus chinensis (L.) Heimerl subsp. chinensis

Heimerl, A. (1934) Die Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien Edn. 2, 16c: 117.

Scrambling climber, herb or subshrub to 1 m tall and 2 m long.

Leaves triangular to ovate, margins usually sinuate to lobed; lamina 1-6 cm long; petiole 2-22 mm long.

Inflorescence often sparsely branched, sparsely hairy; flowers in loose grops of 3-8; flowers white or pink, 9-10 mm long, with sessile glands towards the base; stamens 3 or 4, long exserted; style ca. 11 mm long.

Fruit ca. 7 mm long, club-shaped, slightly 10-ribbed, with a band of sticky stalked glandular warts at apex.

Features not available.

Occurs in the WA. Altitudinal range near sea level. Grows in deciduous vine thicket. Also occurs in Africa, Asia  to Malesia.

Description from Flora of Australia 50: 103.

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