Large woody vines up to 10 m or longer; wood bright yellow. Stems brown; branchlets and petioles longitudinally striate. Leaves inconspicuously peltate; petiole (4-)5-14 cm, leaf blade oblong-ovate, sometimes broadly ovate or broadly ovoid-subglobose, 10-25 × 2.5-9(-13) cm, leathery, glabrous, base rounded or obtuse, sometimes subcordate or cuneate, apex subcuspidate or acutely acuminate, palmately 3-5-veined, usually with 3 pairs of distal lateral veins prominent abaxially. Inflorescences arising from leafless old stems, paniculate; male inflorescences lax, up to 30 cm. Male flowers: pedicels 2-3 mm; perianth variable, outermost whorl minute, ca. 0.3 mm, inner whorl 0.6-1 mm, innermost whorl elliptic, concave, ca. 2.5 × 1.5-1.8 mm; stamens 3, ca. 2 mm, filaments thick and broad, pollen cells subreniform. Female flowers not seen. Drupes yellow, oblong-elliptic, rarely subobovate, 1.8-3 cm; exocarp wrinkled when dry. Fl. spring and summer, fr. autumn.
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A woody vine. The roots and stem have yellow wood. The leaf stalks is long and swollen at both ends. The leaves are oval and have veins spreading out like fingers on a hand. The flowering shoots are often on the older leafless stems. Male and female flowers are separate. There are 1-3 fleshy fruit in a group. They are orange to yellow.
Stamens 3. Wall of endocarp very thin, firmly crustaceous, less than 0.5 mm thick.
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