Aristolochia debilis Sieb. et Zucc. Herbs twining. Stems terete, smooth, glabrous, with enlongate internodes. Petiole 1-2 cm, glabrous; leaf blade ovate or oblong-ovate to sagittate, 3-6 × 1.5-3.5 cm, papery, both surfaces glabrous, veins palmate, 2-3 pairs from base. Flowers axillary, solitary or paired. Pedicel 1-1.5 cm, ascending, glabrous. Calyx yellow-green, throat dark purple; tube rectilinear, abaxially glabrous; utricle globose, 3-5 mm in diam., sessile; tube 20-25 × 2-3 mm; limb unilateral, ligulate, ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 × ca. 1 cm, apex obtuse. Anthers elliptic, ca. 0.5 mm. Gynostemium 6-lobed. Capsule subglobose, 4-6 cm in diam., dehiscing acropetally. Seeds obtusely deltoid, ca. 4 × 4 mm, with membranous wing. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Sep-Oct.
Eight compounds were isolated from the dry fruit of Aristolochia debilis which were aristolochic acid I (1), aristolochic acid II (2), aristolochic acid III (3), aristolochic acid III a(4), aristolochic acid VII a (5), aristolactam I (6), aristolactam II (7) and aristolactam III a (8).