Slender woody climber, 2-5 m. Stems densely cov-ered with a mixture of yellow hairs c. 2 mm long to-gether with much shorter hairs, eventually glabrescent. Leaves with petioles 6-8.5 cm long covered with both long and short hairs; lamina not peltate, deltoid ovate, apex acuminate, base ± truncate (in Mal.) and laterally sublobed, palmately 5-nerved, 11-14 by 9-10 cm, upper surface softly pubescent especially along the nerves, lower surface subtomentose, thinly papyraceous. Male inflorescences axillary or on older, leafless stems, narrowly thyrsoid, 4.5 cm long, 0.8 cm broad, yellowish pubescent, flowers in short lateral cymes. Male flowers on 1-2 mm pedicels; sepals 4, shortly connate at the base, oblong, 2 mm long, externally pilose; corolla reduced to a fleshy disc 0.25 mm long; synandrium 1 mm long. Female inflorescences similar to male, but larger. Female flowers on pedicels 0.5 mm long; sepals 2, suboppo-site, elliptic, 1 mm long, externally pilose; petals 2, episepalous, broadly obovate, 0.25 mm long, fleshy. Carpel subellipsoidal, 1 mm long, puberulous be-coming hispid, stigma with 4-5 spreading, subulate lobes. Infructescences on older, leafless stems up to 19 cm by 2.5 cm, with the drupes crowded on short lateral branches. Drupes very shortly pedicellate or sessile, covered with both long and short hairs, ro-tund in outline, 5 mm Ø. Endocarp bearing 6 dorsal rows of tubercles.
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