Climbing or scrambling shrubs. Stems up to 5 m, with long hairs, glabrate, prickles up to 2 mm, curved, often purplish. Leaves 3-foliolate, upper ones sometimes simple, petiole 1-4 cm long. Stipules deeply divided into up to 6 linear lobes, 4-15 mm long, hairy outside. Leaflets elliptic, ovate-elliptic, or obovate-elliptic, sometimes deltoid or rhomboid, terminal ones 1.5-12 by 2-6.5 cm, lateral ones up to 5.5 by 4 cm, base usually acute, margin serrate, apex obtuse to acute or acuminate, coriaceous, 5-10(-12) pairs of nerves, upper surface more or less densely long-hairy, lower surface with hairs mainly on the nerves. Inflorescences with 1 or 2 cymes under the terminal flower, the cymes 1-or 2-flowered. Bracts stipule-like. Pedicels up to 4 cm long, hairy and with some prickles. Hypanthium up to 15 mm across, long-hairy and with many straight prickles outside, prickles up to 5 mm. Sepals ovate to triangular, 12-18 by 6-10 mm, growing after anthesis, caudate, exposed margins with up to 15 long and slender teeth, indumentum outside as hypanthium, purplish or reddish. Petals obovate or spathulate, distinctly clawed, 11-18 by 7-10 mm, early falling, (orange or pinkish) red. Stamens 50-75, filaments up to 10 mm, anthers up to 1.5 mm long. Pistils 35-90, ovaries long-hairy in upper part, on elevated, glabrous torus, style up to 7 mm long, hairy at base. Collective fruits depressed ovoid, up to 3 cm. Fruits 4-5 by 2-2.5 mm, exocarp long-hairy and with a silky shine, dark red, mesocarp juicy, endocarp dorsally keeled.
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A climbing or scrambling shrub. The stems are up to 5 m long. The prickles are 2 mm long and curved. Often they are purplish. The leaves have 3 leaflets. The leaf stalks are 1-4 cm long. The leaflets are oval and the side ones are 5.5 cm long by 4 cm wide. The edges of the leaves have saw like teeth. The leaves are leathery. The flowerings stalks have 1 or 2 flower stalks below the end flower. These have 1 or 2 flowers each. The petals are red. The fruit or berry is 3 cm across made up of many small fruit. The fruit is dark red. The fruit are edible.
In and along edges of different kinds of mountain forest and in shrubland, usually at elevations from 1,800-3,6O0 metres, occasionally to 4,300 metres.
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A tropical plant. In mountain forests from 1,800 to 3,600 m altitude.
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