Herbaceous glabrescent or hirsute twining climber with heart-shaped leaves, unisexual pale yellow flowers in axillary panicles or racemes or male flowers with 4 sepals villous outside & 4 petals in axillary panicles, female flowers with 2 sepals, villous outside & 4 petals in axillary racemes, white, brown or scarlet flat glabrous drupes or very villous carpels, tuberous roots, hairy or glabrous scabrous leaves glabrous above, pubescent beneath
Known weed
Highly valued medicinal plant, edible