In homesteads An ornamental plant. Pounded leaves are applied to bleeding piles and crushed leaves used as a plaster to carbuncles. Th reat: The plant poses a minor threat of invasion especially under warm climates. 4,
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An ornamental plant. Pounded leaves are applied to bleeding piles and crushed leaves used as a plaster to carbuncles. Th reat: The plant poses a minor threat of invasion especially under warm climates. 4,
Slender twining herbs. Leaves Th alternate, pinnately dissected, 1.5-4.5 cm long, lobes many, 1-1.5 cm long, very narrowly linear, glabrous. Flowers solitary, axillary or in few flowered axillary cymes; peduncles 4-5 cm long; pedicels 1-2 cm long. Calyx lobes 0.4-0.5 cm long, lanceolate. × Corolla red; lobes 0.4-0.6 0.25-0.3 cm, ovate. Filaments unequal, exserted. Ovary 0.2-0.3 cm long, 4-celled; stigmas capitate. × Capsule 0.8-1 0.5-0.6 cm, ovoid; seeds 4, × 0.4-0.5 0.1-0.15 cm, compressed, conical, black on drying.
native range
Tropical America
distribution
USA, Northern and Eastern Australia and several Pacific islands