Subherbaceous twiners; stems striate, pubescent or puberulent, rarely glabrous. Leaves petiolate, conspicuously peltate, ovate to suborbicular, entire to crenate, the apex obtuse, rounded or acuminate, mucronate, the base truncate or rounded, rarely cordate, 5-11 cm. long, 5-10 cm. wide, membranous, palmately nerved, sericeous with long whitish hairs or glabrous above, paler and occasionally glaucous below, sericeous or puberulent; petioles 4-9 cm. long, tomentose to glabrous. Staminate inflorescence multiflowered fasciculate dichasia in the leaf axils or upon short secondary axillary branches within the axils of rediuced leaves or bracts, the two forms frequently occurring together; bracts of secondary branches large and foliaceous, basifixed, sessile or obscurely petiolate, broadly cordate to subreniform, mucronate, 5-15 mm. long, 4-25 mm. wide, membranous, puberulent to densely pubescent; bracteoles linear, about 0.5 mm. long, pubescent. Staminate flowers: Sepals 4, ovate, oblong or obovate, 1.0-1.4 mm. long, 0.8-1.0 mm. wide, glabrous or exteriorly puberulent; corolla campanulate, 0.5-1.0 mm. in diameter, glabrous; anthers 4, glabrous. Pistillate inflorescence composed of individual flowers fascicu-late in the axils of bracts upon secondary axillary branches. Bracts and bracteoles similar to the staminate. Pistillate flowers: Sepal 1, ovate to obovate, 1.0-1.2 mm. long, 0.8-1.0 mm. wide, glabrous or puberulent; petal 1, suborbicular, 0.5-0.7 mm. long, 0.5-1.0 mm. wide; carpel 1, gibbose, sessile, essentially glabrous, the stigma 3-lobed. Drupe red, obovoid, compressed, 5-7 mm. long, 4-5 mm. wide, pubes-cent, rarely glabrous; endocarp ribbed, verrucose.
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A climbing herb. The stems, leaves and flowers have white trichomes. The leaf stalk is 3-7 cm long. The leaves are oval or rounded and 5-11 cm long and wide. The fruit are oval and 5-7 mm long by 4-5 mm wide. They are red and hairy.
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