Habit: Distimake tuberosus grows as a climbing liana to 10 m in length. The leaves are arranged alternately and to 12 cm in length. The leaf blade is deeply palmately 7-lobed each with an entire margin and acuminate apex.
The complete, perfect, actinomorphic flowers solitary or in few flowered cymes. The calyx has 5 unfused oblong sepals that become woody with age. The corolla has 5 fused, funnelform, yellow petals. There are 5 stamens fused to the throat of the corolla tube. The ovary is superior with 2 locules and numerous seeds. The fruit is a capsule subtended by the woody sepals at maturity.
Habitat: Distimake tuberosus grows in Human Altered environments (roadsides, abandoned fields, waste areas).
Distribution: Distimake tuberosus is NOT native to the Lucayan Archipelago. It is native to tropical Central and South America but occurs as a pan sub- and tropical weed.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage Distimake tuberosus is not used medicinally in the Bahamas.