Lianas, low to moderately high climbing. Branchlets purplish green, usually sparsely puberulent, sometimes becoming glabrate. Leaves simple; petiole ± equaling blade; blade ovate, 6–14 × 4–11 cm, usually shallowly sometimes deeply, 3(–5)-lobed (but leaf never appearing compound), base cordate to subcordate, margins crenate-dentate to irregularly serrate, apex short acuminate, surfaces glabrous or abaxial surface puberulent. Inflorescences usually shorter than leaves. Flowers yellowish green. Berries ripening from green to white, rose, blue, or lilac, ± globose, 6–9 mm diam. 2n = 40.
A creeper. The branches have ridges along them. The tendrils have 2 or 3 branches. The leaves are simple and have 3-5 divisions. The leaves are 3.5--14 cm long by 3-11 cm wide. The flowers are yellowish green. The fruit are berries 5-8 mm across. The are white, red or blue when ripe. They have 2-4 seeds. The seeds are narrowly oval.