Fast-growing noxious perennial vine with milky juice. Plants often thrive in citrus groves, competing with trees for water, nutrients, and light. Plants grow extremely fast. Vines can grow over tree canopies within a couple of years and kill individual branches by girdling.
Significant infestations reduce fruit yields and interfere with tree maintenance.
No description available. Upper surfaces glabrous, glossy dark green. Lower surfaces gray-green, minutely pitted, densely covered with minute hairs. Petioles 1.5-3 cm long. Sepals 5, fused near the base, green, erect, leaf-like.