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A herb. It lies along the ground or can be a climber. It keeps growing from year to year. It can be 2 m long. The leaf blade is 2-5 cm long by 2-6 cm wide. The leaves are heart shaped at the base and with 3-5 lobes. The male flowers are in groups or 4-10. The female flowers are in groups or 1-6. They are pale yellow or white. The fruit are about 1 cm long. They are bright red. The seeds are about 4 mm long by 2-3 mm wide.
Leaf-lamina 2·0–5·4 × 2·1–6·6 cm., ovate to subhastate in outline, deeply cordate, finely asperulous or scabrid and more coarsely scabrid-setulose on veins, beneath, finely scabrid above, palmately variously 3(5)-lobed, lobes almost plane to irregularly sinuate-denticulate or lobulate, acute to rounded, apiculate, the central largest.
Prostrate or scandent herb. Stems puberulous and also spiculate on ridges. Petioles retrorsely puberulous. Fruits puberulous, 25-102 mm each cluster, often more than 1, usually subsessile, not or only shortly rostrate. Flowers pale yellow to white; November to December and in May.
male flowers about 4–10 in subsessile axillary clusters; peduncles up to 3 mm. long; pedicels 1·5–2·5 mm. long. Receptacle-tube 1·2 mm. long; lobes 1–1·2 mm. long, lanceolate. Petals 1·4–1·5 mm. long, pale yellow to white.
Stems to 2 m., prostrate or scandent, shortly puberulous, sulcate, setulose on ridges, when older softly woody, with grey bark, white-callosed on ridges.
Seeds 4–4·5 × 2·8–3 × 2·1–2·6 mm., asymmetrically ovoid, tumid, somewhat compressed at the apex, with slightly rugose faces and prominent margins.
Fruits 9–13 × 7–9 mm., 1–6, subsessile, ovoid, not or only shortly rostrate; pedicels up to 2·5 mm. long.
Petiole 1–3·5 cm. long, shortly retrorsely puberulous, setulose on ridges.
Female flowers 1–6, subsessile; ovary 3·5 mm. long, ellipsoid, puberulous.
