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Shrubs, up to c. 3 m high, sometimes ± climbing and up to 10 m. Stems densely long-hairy, prickles very few or none, up to 3 mm. Leaves pedately 5-foliolate, in the inflorescence sometimes fewer leaflets, young leaflets folded lengthwise, petiole 2-10 cm long. Stipules on the junction of twig and petiole, oblong to lanceolate, 2-4 by 0.5-1 cm, entire, cuspidate, hairy outside, falling early. Leaflets oblong to lanceolate, terminal ones 7-18 by 2-7.5 cm, lateral ones smaller, base acute, margin caudately serrate, apex acuminate to caudate, pergamentaceous, (20-)30-40(-50) pairs of nerves, upper surface variously hairy, lower surface always densely sericeous on main nerves, either short-woolly and also long-sericeous or quite glabrous between the nerves, the indumentum silvery. Inflorescences terminal and lateral thyrsi, up to 5 cm long and with up to 15 flowers. Bracts stipule-like. Pedicels up to 2 cm, densely sericeous. Hypanthium 5-9 mm across, densely sericeous outside. Sepals (ovate-)triangular, 6-13 by 2-7 mm, entire, long-pointed to acuminate, indumentum outside as hypanthium. Petals obovate to ± rhomboid, 4-5 by 2-3.5 mm, early falling, rounded, (greenish) white. Stamens 50-150, filaments up to 4 mm, anthers 0.7-1 mm long. Pistils c. 80 to over 100, ovaries long-hairy in apical part, on elevated, hairy torus, style up to 5 mm long, long-hairy. Collective fruits globose-ovoid, c. 1 cm in diam., sepals upright to slightly spreading. Fruits up to 2.5 by 2 mm (dry), exocarp hairy, orange to red, mesocarp juicy but only a thin layer when dry.
An evergreen shrub. The canes are 3 m long and arch over. Plants develop sucker. The stems are 5-8 cm across. The leaves are large and pleated and divided into five leaflets. The leaves are satiny underneath on top and silvery underneath. The fruit are red.
