Region: tropical Africa, Nigeria to Kenya, Angola, Tanzania.
Habitat: hygrophilous forest; primitive forest; semi-deciduous mixed forest, wet evergreen forest edges, riverine forest and forest remnants, at elevations from sea level to 1,000 metres.
Content: chonemorphine, dictyodiamine; alkaloids; latex, white, of variable quality, sparse or abundant, fluid or tacky, poor quality rubber.
Use: fruits for juice, medicine; materials, flexible stems as tying material.
BotanyVigorous climbing plant; much-branched woody stems, up to 35 metres long and 50 cm in girth at the base; support themselves in other plants by means of tendrils.
Fruit: spherical, green to yellow or red, sweet smelling, with a juicy, yellow pulp with a sweet, sour flavour; number of fairly large seeds up to 11 mm long.