Kedrostis

Monoecious, rarely dioecious, scandent or prostrate, perennial herbs, scabrid or glabrous, sometimes subfleshy and with tuberous rootstock. Leaves entire to lobed or partite. Tendrils simple, rarely bifid. Maleflowers racemose or subcorymbose: calyx 5-lobed, tube campanulate, pilose within, lobes linear-lanceolate, ovate-oblong or subulate, with few glandular hairs; corolla 5-partite, lobes ovate or oblong-linear, often pubescent or glandular-hairy; stamens 3(4 or 5) arising from receptacle tube, filaments free, +/- as long as anthers, when 3 present then 1 anther 1-thecous and 2 anthers 2-thecous, when 5 stamens present then all anthers 1-thecous, thecae straight or +/- curved, connective often produced and often bifid or bipartite; pistil 0, or gland-like. Femaleflowers solitary or clustered, shortly pedicelled: calyx and corolla as in male; staminodes 0-5 often 3; ovary ovoid or elliptic, sometimes beaked, with 2 or 3 placentas and few, rarely many ovules, sometimes hairy, with long, glandular hairs, style columnar, not or only slightly surrounded by disc at base, stigmas 2 or 3, broad or narrow, each stigma often shortly bilobed. Fruit a berry, ovoid, often beaked, few- to many-seeded. Seeds often globose with a margin and crustaceous, punctate or slightly pustulate or smooth; cotyledons thick, fleshy. x = 12, 13 (1 report).