Woody climbers, sometimes erect shrubs or small trees, 4-6(-10) m tall. Leaves 10-20 cm; rachis and petioles puberulent; leaflets 5-9; petiolules puberulent; blade ovate, obovate, or elliptic, (3-)5-8 × (2-)2.5-5 cm, firmly papery, abaxially sparsely puberulent, adaxially glabrous and with dense, prominent veinlets, base rounded or broadly cuneate, apex acute, obtuse, or emarginate, cuspidate. Panicles terminal or sometimes extending into axils of uppermost leaves, 5-25 × 4-12 cm, with cymose, dichotomous branches. Flowers minute, ca. 3 mm; bracts and bracteoles persistent, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 1/2 as long as calyx tube. Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed; teeth subequal, rounded or obtuse except lowest rather longer and lanceolate. Corolla white or yellowish green; petals shortly clawed; standard obovate-oblong, emarginate; wings obovate or elliptic; keel half-moon-shaped. Stamens 9(or 10), monadelphous. Ovary stipitate, oblong, puberulent, 1-or 2-ovuled; style short. Legume oblong or sometimes elliptic, 5-8 × 2-4 cm, leathery, glabrous, reticulate throughout but strongly so opposite 1(or 2) seeds, base broadly cuneate, apex acute or obtuse. Seeds reniform, much compressed, ca. 12 × 6 mm; testa brown, shiny. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Jul-Dec.
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A straggling or climbing shrub. The branches often have tendrils. It grows 4-6 m tall. The leaves are 10-20 cm long. There are 5-9 leaflets. The flowers are small and have a sweet scent. The fruit are strap shaped pods. There are one or two seeds. The seeds are kidney shaped and 12 mm long by 6 mm wide.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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