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A creeper or vine. The young branches are hairy. The root is a tuber. The leaves are 15-35 cm long by 16-40 cm wide. They are broadly rounded and heart shaped at the base. They are often lobed. The female flowering shoots are 8-10 cm long. The male ones are 40 cm long. The fruit are 2-2.5 cm long by 1.5-2 cm wide.
Leaf-lamina 15–35 x 16–40 cm., broadly rounded, deeply cordate at the base, generally with 5 broadly ovate lobes, acuminate at the apex, sometimes angular, membranous, with strigose hairs on both sides, rarely glabrescent; basal nerves 5–7, palmate, petiole 18–25 cm. long, strigose.
Male inflorescences 40 cm. long; lateral branches 2–10 cm. long; main axes strigose; secondary axes sometimes glabrous, with a linear-lanceolate ciliate bract at the base; pedicels absent.
Male flowers with greenish sepals 2.7–3.2 x 1.3–1.6 mm.; petals 1.8–2.2 mm. long; stamens 1–1.8 mm. long, free, slightly adnate to the base of the petals.
Liane with branchlets densely pubescent at first, later strigose.
Female flowers with carpels 1–1.5 mm. long, rusty-pubescent.
Female inflorescences 8–10 cm. long.
Drupelets 2–2.5 x 1.5–2 cm.
Rootstock tuberous.
