Common names (English):

Adament creeper, Bone setter, Edible-stemmed vine

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Climber

Distribution:

Native to Africa, Arabia and Indo-Malesia

Use: Medicinal

Description:

Rambling, succulent, deciduous shrubs; stem 4-angular, winged or ridged at angles, constricted at nodes; tendril simple. Leaves simple, entire or 3-lobed, ovate-suborbicular or subreniform, thick-coriaceous. Flowers greenish-yellow, in leaf-opposed, peduncled, umbellate cymes. Petals 4, ca. 2.5 mm long, ovate, acute. Stamens 4; filaments to 2 cm long; anthers yellow. Berry ca. 7 mm across, subglobose. Seeds black, smooth.