Stem filiform, (0.2–) 0.6–1.1 mm thick, grey-golden, diffuse-tomentose at first, becoming glabrescent; some hairs to 1 mm long, irregularly twisted and tinted red. Inflorescence a 5–15-flowered head, single or rarely paired; peduncle (3–) 12–18 (–32) × 0.2–0.5 mm, narrower basally; long peduncles on some plants may be many-flowered, with long diffuse hairs; on others short peduncles few-flowered, with short retrorse hairs. Floral bracts whorled; bract ovate, acute, 1–1.5 × 0.5–0.8 mm, brown, leathery (dried), white-pubescent, ciliate; bracteoles similar, smaller. Flowers globular, c. 1 mm across, yellow. Sepals ovate, 0.5–1 mm × c. 0.5 mm, yellow, pubescent outside, glabrous inside, drying triangular, c. 0.5 × 0.5 mm, thick-leathery, brown. Petals ovate, 0.8–1.5 × 0.7–1 mm, pubescent outside, glabrous or slightly pubescent inside, yellow, remaining yellow when dried even on fruit. Stamens fertile, 9, brown, triangular. Staminodes pyramidal, c. 0.3 × 0.3 mm, pubescent, with oblique fleshy glabrous white gland-like tips which dry dark; glands ovoid, c. 0.2 × 0.15 mm, glabrous, not gland-tipped. Ovary fusiform 1–1.5 × 0.5 mm, pubescent in upper half, protruding from pubescent receptacular tube. Fruit globular, c. 4 mm across, grey, densely white-pubescent.
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A twining plant. The stems are greenish-brown to yellow-orange. Plants have small suckers along the stem which attach to trees. The leaves are very small and scale like. The flowers are yellow. The fruit have a succulent outer part. There is one seed inside. The fruit are 6-7 mm long. The fruit are edible.
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