Climbing or straggling shrubs. Stems densely hairy with many long, straight hairs and few short, thin, curly ones, prickles up to 2 mm. Leaves broadly ovate, 8.5-14 by 6.5-10 cm, shallowly 3-5-lobed, base cordate, margins rather grossly serrate, apex gradually acuminate, coriaceous, nervation pedate with 5-6 pairs of nerves, venation reticulate, upper surface bullate between the veins, both surfaces with long hairs on nerves and veins and lower surface also with a dense felt of thin curly hairs all over, two-coloured when dry. Petiole 3-5 cm long. Stipules pinnatipartite with 6-8 pairs of lobes, c. 15 by 11 mm, hairy outside. Inflorescence a compound raceme, large and rich, 10-25 cm long, only the lowermost of the 4-6 side branches in the axil of a leaf or all laterals in the axils of bracts. Bracts persistent, pinnatisect, large. Pedicels up to c. 8 mm long, densely hairy as are the other axes. Flowers bisexual, flower buds ovoid. Hypanthium cup-shaped, c. 8 mm across, densely hairy outside. Sepals distinctly dimorphous, outer ones 10—14(—18) by 10-13 mm, with 5 or more pairs of lobes, those up to 7 by 1.5 mm, inner sepals triangular and not lobed, 10-11 by c. 4 mm, indumentum outside as hypanthium. Petals falling early, c. 6 by 3-3.5 mm, apex deeply emarginate. Stamens 70-90, filaments up to 4 mm, glabrous, anthers c. 0.8 mm long. Pistils many, ovaries glabrous, on hairy torus, style up to 4.5 mm long. Collective fruits probably globular, c. 1 cm diam. (dry), sepals closing after anthesis, widely spreading under ripe fruits. Fruits 3 mm long, mesocarp rather thick.
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