Cyphia digitata leaves

These dark green Cyphia digitata leaves on twining stems seen in the Biedouw Valley are narrowly three-lobed, channelled and hairy. The lobes are linear, the middle one longest and bluntly pointed to rounded.

The long-stalked flowers nod from leaf axils, clutched at the base by narrow, curving sepal lobes. The pair of heart-shaped lower corolla lobes point forward below wide tube mouths. The three upper lobes are erect with small, dull purple markings at the base (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; iNaturalist).