Scrambling or trailing shrubs. Stems up to 2 m long, densely hairy and with few stalked glands, glabrescent, prickles rather many, curved, up to 2 mm, several cataphylls at base of laterals. Leaves palmately 5-foliolate, the first leaves on a branch sometimes 4-or 3-foliolate, petiole 2.5-5.5 cm long, petioles and petiolules hairy, with rather many strongly curved prickles. Stipules maybe not always present, on the petiole, 3-5 by less than 1 mm, hairy. Leaflets elliptic, terminal ones 3-5 by 2-3 cm, base rounded to slightly cordate, margin serrate, apex rounded, chartaceous, nervation pinnate with 6-8 pairs of nerves, venation transverse, densely (semi-)patently hairy below, glabrescent. Inflorescence a simple raceme, axillary, 5-7.5 cm long, with 2-7 flowers, peduncle up to 2 cm, with some to many prickles. Bracts up to 6 by 2 mm, also empty ones at base of peduncle. Pedicels 1.5-4 cm long, with prickles. Flowers unisexual and plants dioecious or polygamodioe-cious. Hypanthium flat, 3-3.5 mm across, ap-pressed-hairy and glandular outside, sometimes with a prickle. Sepals elliptic, 3.5-7 by 3-6 mm, obtuse, indumentum outside as hypanthium, purplish. Petals elliptic, 5-7 by 3.5-7 mm, rounded to slighdy emarginate at apex, hairy, pale green to white. Stamens 14-20, filaments up to 2.5 mm, long-hairy, anthers c. 1 mm long, staminodes in female flowers minute. Pistils 17-25 in a compact globe, ovaries densely long-hairy and yellow-glandular on the backside, on a flat hairy torus, style 0.8-1 mm long. Collective fruits globular, 1-1.5 cm when dry, up to 2.5 cm when living, sepals spreading. Fruits well separated, 5-7 by 4-4.5 mm, exocarp hairy and dorsally also glandular, brown (?), mesocarp thick.
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