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==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|alternate|Tendrils simple, rarely bifid, slender, glabrous. Leaves alternate, elongate-ovate in outline, 10-60 (-110) mm long, 8-55 (-66) mm broad, distinctly scabrid-hairy beneath, smooth except on the nerves above, palmately deeply 3-5-lobed, ultimate lobes pinnately lobulate with central lobe longest, long-ovate in outline; petiole rather densely rough-hairy}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual|axillary|yellow||Male flowers on long pedicels; calyx campanulate, c. 9 (4-8) mm long, lobes c. 5 mm broad; corolla pale yellow, ovate-acute, c. 8 mm long and c. 5 mm broad. Female flowers on longer pedicels than male, receptacle-tube short, lobes lanceolate, c. 5 mm long; ovary hairy, subglobose or obovate.}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Pepo|5 cm across|globoseGlobose, smooth, longitudinally green striped, 5-7 cm in diameter, eipcarp thin, filled with a dry spongy very bitter pulp||seeds Seeds numerous, ovate-oblong, yellowish brown, not margined, c. 6 mm long and c. 3 mm broad.}}
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