Cucumeropsis

Monoecious herbaceous climbers with robust, branched, angular, sparsely crisped-hairy stems; branches terete; tendrils simple. Leaves +/-entire or 3-5-angled to -palmatilobed, finely toothed, deeply cordate at base, large, petiolate. Male flowers in racemes or in panicles and subumbellate at apex of a long common peduncle; petioles +/-as long as flowers; receptacle tube campanulate, hairy inside above, lobes 5, lanceolate, reflexed; petals 5, united at base; stamens 3: 2 double, 2-thecous, 1 single, 1-thecous, sessile in upper part of receptacle, anthers subpeltate, thecae straight, apically hooked; pistillode of 3 short filaments or absent; disc cup-shaped, not distinct from base of receptacle tube. Female flowers solitary, on a hairy stalk; perianth similar to male; receptacle tube shortly cylindric, hairy inside above; ovary fusiform-cylindric, style short, stigmas 3, bilobed; ovaries many, horizontal; staminodes 3, very small or absent. Fruit rather large, cylindric-ellipsoid, rounded apically, rather firm-walled, fleshy, smooth, indehiscent, cream with green streaks. Seeds rather large, ovate in outline, compressed, smooth, pure white.