Leaf-lamina broadly ovate, generally suborbicular and angular (with the angles more or less prominent) or broadly triangular, truncate, rounded or subcordate at the base, obtuse and mucronulate at the apex, with variable indumentum, very rarely glabrous beneath, basal nerves 5–7, palmate, petiole 4–16 cm. long, inserted 0.8–2 cm. from the base of the lamina.
Liane with stem and branchlets more or less densely pubescent, rarely puberulous, sometimes ultimately glabrescent; indumentum normally composed of spreading hairs.
Female inflorescences up to 35 cm. long; bracts up to 4 cm. in diam., suborbicular or reniform, mucronulate, hairy, long-ciliolate; pedicels 1–1.2 mm. long.
Female flowers with sepal 1.2–2 x 0.7–1 mm.; petals 1–1.2 x 1–1.2 mm., truncate or subreniform; carpel 1–1.3 mm. long, hairy.
Male inflorescences with sepals 1–1.5 x 0–7–1.2 mm., hairy outside; corolla 1–1.2 mm. long, cup-shaped.
Male inflorescences up to 40 cm. long; cymules with pubescent peduncles 0.5–3 cm. long.
Female inflorescence with greenish-white bracts, and red fruits.
Drupe 4–6 x 4–5 mm., hairy.
A twiner