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Leaf-lamina up to 8·5 × 7 cm., ovate, apex acute to mucronate, margin closely serrulate, base rounded to cordate, tomentellous to nearly glabrous above, persistently tomentose beneath, secondary nerves in 5–9 pairs impressed above and prominent below, tertiary venation prominent and regularly subparallel beneath; petiole tomentose, up to 2·5 cm. long; stipules up to 1 cm. long, subulate, tomentose, caducous.
A shrub that lies along the ground or a liane. It can climb 20 m high. It has coiled tendrils. It scrambles over other vegetation. The leaves are oval. The veins are easy to see. There are fine teeth along the edge. There are many flowers along a stalk. The flowers are creamy-white. The fruit are fleshy and 6 mm long by 11 mm wide. They have 3 wings.
Inflorescence up to 50 cm. long, of elongated racemes up to 20 cm. long and composed of fascicles of up to 20 flowers; pedicels up to 5 mm. long, tomentellous; bracts up to 8 mm. long, triangular, tomentose.
Climbing shrub or liane; branchlets with coiled tendrils; tendrils rusty-pubescent when young, glabrescent later.
Fruit 6 × 11 mm., 3-winged, pubescent, glabrescent with age; wings very loosely reticulate-veined.
Ovary inferior: style 0–5 mm. long, 3-fid or very short and obscurely 3-lobed.
Sepals 1·5–2 mm. long, deltate, tomentose outside, glabrous within.
Petals 1·5 mm. long, obovate, cucullate, shortly unguiculate.
Disk 3 mm. in diam., lobed opposite the calyx-teeth.
Seed 3 × 2 mm., plano-convex; testa shining brown.
A scandent shrub or liane
Flowers greenish-yellow
Leaves greyish beneath
Receptacle tomentose.
Stamens 1·5 mm. long.
