Herbs, perennial, climbing. Stems slender, many branched, sparsely shortly pubescent or subglabrous. Median leaves: petiole 2.5-6 cm; blade triangular-ovate, 4-10 × 2-7 cm, both surfaces sparsely shortly pubescent, glabrescent or glabrous by anthesis, base cordate, margin entire or repand-crenate; upper leaves gradually smaller, shortly petiolate, triangular or lanceolate, base truncate or cuneate. Capitula numerous in terminal corymb or compound corymb; peduncle slender, pubescent or glabrous, with linear-lanceolate bracteole leaves; phyllaries narrowly elliptic, 5-7 mm, sparsely pubescent and glandular, distinctly 3-veined, apex obtuse or slightly acute; corollas white, 3.5-5 mm, with slender tube and campanulate limb, sparsely puberulent. Achenes narrowly elliptic, ca. 3.5 mm, 4-ribbed, glandular; pappus off-white or rather reddish, 3.5-4 mm. Fl. and fr. Aug-Nov. 2n = 34, 36, 38.
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A climber or vine. It grows 8-15 m high. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaves are opposite. The base of the leaf is heart shaped. There can be teeth along the edge of the leaf. The leaves are 8 cm wide. The flowers are pale pink or white. They are in a cluster at a head. The fruit are greenish-white.
Commonly found in young secondary jungle, forest clearings, abandoned ground, secondary regrowth areas, ravines, mountain slopes, roadsides, watercourses, fallow lands, low-lying areas along streams and rivers and open plantations.
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It is a tropical plant. It grows in waste places and old re-growth. In Malawi it grows between 650-1,900 m altitude. It can be in savannah woodland and palm groves. It can be in flooded rice fields. In Yunnan.
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