Tuber large. Leaves: petiole 2–6 cm long; lamina triangular to triangular-ovate, 4.5–9 cm long, 3.5–8 cm wide, truncate to slightly cordate at base, usually acute at apex, glabrous, glaucous below. Inflorescences very slender, to c. 18 cm long; cymes 1.5–6 cm long, glabrous. Male flowers: pedicel to c. 5 mm long, filiform: outer 3 sepals obovate, inner 3 sepals broadly elliptic, all 0.75–1 mm long, glabrous; petals cuneate-obovate, 0.3 mm long, glabrous; stamens c. 0.25 mm long. Female flowers: carpels sparsely papillose, 0.3 mm long. Drupes glabrous; endocarp obliquely ± suborbicular in outline, 4–4.5 mm diam., ridges on the dorsal band not strongly pronounced.
Grows in various forest types including rainforest, wet and dry sclerophyll forest, vine forest, also wattle scrub beneath Eucalyptus forest, sometimes prostrate among grasses.
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