Rootstock producing fibrous roots. Stems fleshy, twining and climbing, several to many metres in length, sparsely branched, tuberculate, shiny, greyish, mottled with olive-green, glabrous. Leaves rudimentary, sessile, triangular or subcordate, ±2.5 x 3 mm. Flowers 1-2 together, opening in succession on short peduncle; pedicels ±8 mm long. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 2 mm long. Corolla about 50 mm long, curved, glabrous, mottled grey and speckled with purple at apex; tube with small white ring at base within, inflated at base and gradually narrowed to about the middle, then expanded to funnel-shaped mouth, pilose within base and at mouth; lobes free, opening star-like from above, ciliate, each appearing like a donkey's ear, overall about 20 mm diam. Corona: outer series cup-shaped, forming 5 deep pockets with outer margin 2-toothed and sometimes with a smaller one between, with long, white hairs within and on margin; inner lobes arising from within base of outer tube, incumbent-erect-spreading, with 2 brown stripes from base. Follicles ±100 mm long, spreading-curved, thinly tuberculate; stigmas becoming knob-like.
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A vine that keeps growing from year to year. It grows 2 m high. The stems are thick. The leaves are small and like scales. The flowers are tube shaped and dark purple to green. They expand into star like lobes. They are united at the tips.
Succulent twining and climbing perennial herb. Leaves rudimentary. Corolla up to 50 mm long, ± a quarter divided, lobes opening star-like over tube. Flowers mottled grey and speckled with purple at apex.
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