Flora of New Zealand Series

I. pendula R. Br. Prodr 1810, 486.

I. tuberculata Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. 4, 1819, 208.

Slender glab. liane or scrambling herb or softly woody plant; stems up to ± 3 m. long, becoming ± tuberculate, ribbed, branching. Lvs on slender petioles up to 5 cm. long, sts with minute palmate lvs at base. Lamina (2.5)-4-8 cm. diam., subcoriac., digitately 5-7-lobed almost to base; lobes lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse to subacute to acuminate, sts with filiform apiculus, entire or outer ones again ± lobed. Peduncles ± erect, up to 5 cm. long, 1-3-fld, pedicels up to c. 3 cm. long. Sepals 6-10 mm. long, ovate, obtuse to subacute. Corolla 5-8 cm. diam., pale purple with darker throat. Capsule c. 12 mm. diam., ovoid-globose, glab., 2-loculed; seeds 2-4, almost villous.

DIST.: K., Three Kings, N. Coastal cliffs and banks and old fore-dunes to c. lat. 35° 30'.

FL. 12-4. Abundant in tropical and subtropical regions.