Flowers are pale greenish yellow, 2.5-3mm long; arranged opposite the leaves in umbellate cymes.

Fruit is an ovoid or globose berry, 13 x 11mm, fleshy and ripens bright red.

[3] Cyphostemma ternatum is edible and the leaves were traditionally boiled into a green mush in Southern Arabia.

[4] In traditional herbal medicine, this plant was used to treat cases of footrot in Arabia.

A poultice of juice of the cooked leaves with salt was applied to the affected part.