Description : Scandent shrub, leafy stems slender, densely to sparsely pubescent (or puberulous) to glabrous. leaves, 1-broadly ovate, 4.5–11 by 4.5–12 cm, base rounded, truncate or cordate, apex mostly obtusely to acutely acuminate, flower surface pubescent or puberulous (rarely tomentose), upper surface sparsely pubescent or puberulous; papyraceous; petioles, pubescent or puberulous, 2–9 cm, inserted 1–18 mm from (or rarely at) the basal margin of lamina. Male inflorescences: flowers in subcorymbose, peduncled cymes, 2–4 cm. long, pubescent, solitary or a few arising in a fascicle. Male flowers green to yellowish on pedicels, 1–2 mm; sepals 4, obovate, 1.25–1.5 mm long, pilose outside; corolla cupuliform, ca 0.5 mm long, puberulous outside; synandrium ca 0.75 mm long. Female inflorescence: thyrsoid, narrow, up to 18 cm, composed of a pseudoraceme of fascicles, each fascicle in the axil of an accrescent, ± suborbicular bract, up to 1.5 cm long, puberulous to tomentose. Female flowers on pedicels, 1–1.5 mm; sepal 1, broadly obovate, 1.5 mm long; petal 1, broadly cuneate-obovate, 0.75 mm long; carpels scarcely, 0.5 mm long, pilose, about equal in length to the thick, glabrous style; stigma divaricately 3-lobed. Drupes orange or red, pubescent; endoearp obovate in outline, 5 mm long, dorsally bearing 2 rows of 9–11 very prominent, transverse ridges.

Thailand : NORTHERN: Widespread; NORTH-EASTERN: Khon Kaen (Chum Phae); EASTERN: Nakhon Ratchasima; SOUTH-EASTERN: Prachin Buri (Aranyaprathet); SOUTH-WESTERN: Widespread.

Distribution : Pantropical (type of var. from Nepal), in Malesia not kndwn from Malaya, Sumatra and Java.

Ecology : In evergreen, deciduous and bamboo forests, also climbing over bushes in scrub and along river banks, up to 1,100 m alt. Flowering: March–December; fruiting? (specimens not seen).

Vernacular : Khong khamao (ขงเขลมา)(Northern); khruea ma noi (เครือหมาน้อย)(Eastern); kon pit (ก้นปิด)(Southwestern); krung khamao (กรุงเขมา), sifan (สีฟัน)(Peninsular).