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A herb that grows attached to other plants. It can be a climber. The branches have lines along them. The leaves are simple and deeply heart shaped. There is a short tip. There are 5-7 veins from the base spread out like fingers on a hand. Male and female flowers are separate. The flowers are small and 1 mm long and green. The fruit is flattened and fleshy and sometimes has some hairs.
Leaf-lamina 2–4.5 x 3–5 cm., ovate-subtriangular, broadly cordate, sometimes deeply cordate, subobtuse or subtruncate at the base, acute and slightly mucronate at the apex, puberulous or glabrescent on the lower side, except the nerves, sparsely puberulous on the upper side, nerves 5–7-palmate, petiole 1–1.5 cm. long.
Male inflorescences of corymbose cymes, solitary or 2–4-fasciculate, sometimes arranged in false axillary racemes 3–6 cm. long; pedicels slender, c. 1 mm. long.
Male flowers with 4 sepals, obovate-unguiculate, c. 1 x 0.7 mm., glabrous, with black spots when dry; synandrium 4 (6)-locular.
Female inflorescences often solitary, of 5–10-flowered cymules arranged on an axis 4–10 cm. long; bracts triangular, ciliate.
Female flowers with sepals 1.2–1.5 x 1 mm., ovate-elliptic, glabrous; carpels 0.7 mm. long.
Drupe 5–6 x4–5 mm., compressed, sparsely hairy or glabrescent.
Slender liane with branchlets striate, glabrescent.
