Woody lianas, sometimes becoming erect or suberect. Leaflets usually 5, broadly oval to oblong-elliptic, broadly obtuse or rounded at the base, 3-12 cm. long, 1.5-5.0 cm. broad on flowering or fruiting branches, glabrate or glabrous. Inflorescence inconspicuously pilosulose to glabrate, the small greenish white or yellowish flowers shortly but definitely pedicellate; sepals narrowly lanceolate, 2.0-2.5 mm. long; petals about 5 mm. long. Follicles obliquely compressed-obovoid, about 1.5 cm. long and 1 cm. broad, with a stipe about 2-3 mm. long.