Climbing or sprawling shrubs, gynodioecious? Stems up to 10 m long, densely hairy when young, prickles rather few to many, short but strong. Leaves (broadly) ovate to suborbicular, 5-8.5 by 4-6.5 cm, not or very shallowly lobed, base shal-lowly cordate or truncate, margins serrate, apex obtuse to acute, stiff-coriaceous, nervation pedate with 5-7 pairs of nerves, venation transverse, (rather) densely hairy above, lower surface densely short-woolly all over and with long, straight hairs on nerves and veins, distinctly two-coloured. Petiole 1-3 cm long. Stipules often rather persistent, linear, 12-19 by 3-4 mm, entire or minutely teethed, hairy outside. Inflorescence a panicle-like compound raceme, richly and widely branched and many-flowered, up to 40 cm long, up to 15 side branches, up to 18 cm long. Bracts rather large, persistent. Pedicels up to 5 mm long, densely hairy as all axes in the inflorescence. Flowers bisexual or female. Hypanthium saucer-shaped, 3-4.5 mm across, densely hairy outside. Sepals ovate, 5-6 by 2.5-4 mm, after anthesis growing to 8 by 6 mm, apex apiculate, margins entire or with minute teeth, on the outside with a woolly felt and the not-covered parts also with long appressed hairs. Petals obovate to elliptic, 5-6.5 by 2.5-4 mm, apex obtuse to emarginate, white. Stamens 50-100, filaments up to 4.5 mm, glabrous, anthers 0.5 mm long, staminodes with shorter filament and minute anther. Pistils 15-25, ovaries long hairy at the top on the backside, on a slightly elevated, long-hairy torus, style 2-3 mm long, some hairs at the base. Collective fruits consisting of few fruits only, sepals closing after anthesis. Fruits c. 3 mm long when dry, still hairy at apex, bright red, mesocarp a rather thick, tough layer when dry.
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