Strong, dioecious, woody climber, to 5 m high. Leaves ternate; leaflets broad-ovate to ovate-elliptic, mostly 6–9 cm long, 2–6.5 cm wide, entire, acute to obtuse, thin, glabrescent. Flowers in axillary and terminal dichasial panicles. Tepals caducous, oblong-lanceolate, 7–16 mm long, pubescent below, glabrous above with densely white-tomentose margins, creamy white. Stamens 5–10 mm long; filaments glabrous; anthers ± ellipsoidal, mostly 1–1.5 mm long, with ± globular appendage, 0–0.3 mm long; staminodes present. Achenes compressed, narrow-ovoid, subulate, 5–7 mm long, 1.2–1.5 mm wide, reddish brown, ± falcate, pubescent to glabrous, often with longitudinal ridges on faces, margins corky; awn 3–5 cm long.
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A vine. It grows 5 m long. The stems can be 8 cm across. The leaves have leaflets. The leaves are 5-12.5 cm long by 2.5-7 cm wide. The flowers are cream. They are 12 mm across.
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