Gomphogyne Griff.
Gomphogyne Griff., Account Bot. Coll. Cantor: 26. 1845.
Type: Gomphogyne cissiformis Griff., M.P. Edgeworth 88 (K), Himalaya, Pandkwaar, 1844.

Annual, biennial or perennial climbers or trailers with up to 5 m long, herbaceous shoots, fibrous or tuberous roots, and dioecious sex system. The leaves are simple, petiolate, with simple or pedately (3-)5-9(-11)-foliolate, ovate to subcircular blade. The tendrils are apically bifid, rarely simple. The flowers are small. Male flowers are produced in racemes or thyrses, female flowers in racemes or fascicles, often with 1-2 small tendrils on the peduncle close to the flowers. The receptacle-tube is saucer-shaped with five oblong or lanceolate sepals. The corolla is variable in form with five oblong, ovate or lanceolate, white petals. The five stamens are inserted near the center of the tube on short, free, diverging filaments. The anthers are all monothecous, the thecae are straight or curved and contain tricolporate, striate, small pollen (polar axis 33-40 µm, equatorial axis 21-32 µm, (Khunwasi 1998, De Wilde et al. 2007)). The ovary is turbinate or subclavate, trilocular at apex and monolocular at base. containing few, pendent ovules. The three short styles are crowned with bifid stigmata. The fruit is foveolate with up to 12, compressed, ellipsoid seeds. The testa is tubercled or scrobiculate, mostly with encircling woody (rarely membraneous) wing, uniform in width or expanded along the chalaza-micropyle axis. The chromosome number is n = 16 (Thakur and Sinha 1973).

Two species, growing on mountain slopes, in evergreen and deciduous forest or in open scrub in Asia.

The genus is placed in tribe Gomphogyneae, where it is sister group to Hemsleya (Schaefer & Renner 2011).