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A scrambling shrub. It grows 3.5 m high. The flowering branches have hairs and hooked prickles. The leaves are 16-20 cm long by 9-18 cm wide. There are leaflets. The flower petals are white. The fruit are red or black and are edible.
Leaves 16–20 x 9–18 cm., 2-jugate or the uppermost ternate; petiole and rhachis villous and aculeate like the stems; lateral leaflets subsessile or with petiolule up to 5 mm. long; terminal one with petiolule 1–2·5 cm. long.
Inflorescence 4–14 cm. long, terminal and axillary, many-flowered, cylindrical or narrowly pyramidal; peduncles and pedicels densely greyish-green-villous and very prickly.
Fruit globose, c. 1 cm. in diameter, red or black and edible when ripe; carpels up to 3 mm. long, glabrous or villous.
Flowering branches shortly and densely greyish-green-villous, with hooked brownish-yellow prickles up to 2·5 mm. long.
Calyx greyish-green-villous, deeply divided into lanceolate segments 5–8 mm. long, lobes not reflexed in fruit.
Petals absent, or when present broadly spathulate, shorter than calyx segments, white, caducous.
Stipules 1·0–1·8 x 0·6–1·0 cm., obovate-acute, densely appressed-villous.
Scrambling shrub climbing to c. 3·5 m. high.
