Tall scrambling or climbing perennial shrub, glabrous. Spines recurved, 2–3 mm long. Leaves with lamina elliptic to lanceolate, 5–12 cm long, 3–5 cm wide, ± acute at base, acute at apex, glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, to c. 10-flowered; pedicels 1–2 cm long, accrescent. Outer sepals boat-shaped, c. 2 cm long, coriaceous; inner pair ovate, 1.5 cm long, with membranous margin. Petals oblanceolate, c. 3 cm long, somewhat crenulate at apex, pale yellow. Stamens numerous, c. 4 cm long; filaments cream; anthers 2 mm long. Gynophore c. 5 cm long, irregularly curled in bud; ovary narrowly ovoid; stigmas flat. Fruit pointed-spherical (lemon-shaped), c. 7 cm long, verrucose.
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