Climbing or scrambling shrubs. Stems up to 5(—18?) m long, densely patently hairy, sometimes with shortly stalked glands, prickles rather many, curved, small. Leaves 3-foliolate, petiole 1.5-5.5 cm long. Stipules very rarely present, on the petiole, up to 4 by 0.5 mm. Leaflets elliptic to ovate, terminal ones 3-10 by 2-7 cm, lateral ones smaller, base rounded to shallowly cordate, margin serrate, apex acute, hard-chartaceous, nervation pinnate with (6-)8-12 pairs of nerves, venation transverse, scattered hairy above, sparsely to densely golden to brownish hairy below. Inflorescences simple racemes, solitary or in bundles of up to 4 in the leaf axils, up to 8 cm long, peduncle 0-2 mm, some empty bracts at base, up to 15 flowers. Bracts up to 7 by 4 mm. Pedicels 4-10 mm long, densely hairy and always with small curved prickles, as is the rachis. Flowers normally unisexual, sometimes bisexual (at least appearing so in the herbarium). Hypanthium saucer-shaped, 2.5-3 mm across, woolly and with patent hairs outside. Sepals elliptic to tongue-shaped, 2.5-4 by 1.5-3.5 mm, with straight hairs outside and woolly on the margins, pinkish or purplish inside. Petals elliptic to oblong, 4-8 by (l-)2.5-4.5 mm, obtuse or emar-ginate, patently hairy inside, white or pale pink. Stamens 18-40, filaments up to 4.5 mm, anthers 0.5-1 mm long, staminodes in female flowers small and ± petaloid. Pistils 10-20, ovaries hairy or glabrous, on elevated, densely hairy torus, style up to 1.5 mm long, pistillodes in male flowers minute. Collective fruits up to 1.5 cm when living, 1 cm when dry, sepals spreading. Fruits well separated, up to 5(-7) by 4 mm when dry, exocarp hairy or glabrous, dark red to black, mesocarp rather thick and fleshy when living, rather thin when dry.
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