Climbing or straggling fleshy shrub to ± 1 m.; stems green when young, jointed, 8-sided or appearing 12-sided due to grooves, with 4 deeply channelled faces alternating with intermediate convex faces, the stem appearing ± round; in older stems the green or greyish green faces shallowly to deeply grooved alternating with hardened whitish grey intermediate faces ± 2.2 mm. wide, scabridulous and minutely pubescent, striate when dry; green faces wrinkled when dry and with prominent close raised dots (stomata); each angle of the stem is rather like a railway-line in section; internodes 3–11 cm. long, 0.4–1 cm. wide; transverse bands of fibres present beneath the intermediate faces in mature stems; tendrils simple, minutely pubescent.. Leaves deep green with cream venation, present on youngest shoots, soon falling, broadly ovate, thin and flexible, capable of folding completely without snapping, 1–5 cm. long, 1.5–6(–8) cm. wide, shallowly to deeply 3-lobed, each lobe with ± 3 coarse acute teeth, pubescent on both surfaces; petioles 0–5 cm. long; stipules oblong-ovate, 4 mm. long and wide, ± auriculate.. Inflorescences finely pubescent, up to 4 cm. long, the peduncle and secondary axes rather stout, ± 1.5 cm. long, die latter shortly divided and nodular at apex, each nodule ± 3-flowered; pedicels 7–8 mm. long, pubescent.. Calyx 1.5 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide (in life); entire, ± pubescent or glabrous.. Petals yellowish green, at least sometimes reddish outside, ovate, 2.5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, glabrous except for ± 1 hair at apex.. Fruits ovoid, 7 mm. long and wide (dry), smooth.
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