Climbing, scrambling, or trailing shrubs. Stems up to 6(-10) m long, variously hairy, prickles rather many, 1-2 mm long, straight to slightly curved, shoots with large cataphylls at base. Leaves palmately 5-foliolate, occasionally 4-or 3-foliolate, petiole 3-11 cm long, with many small, curved prickles. Stipules usually absent. Leaflets elliptic to ± ovate, terminal ones 4.5-12 by 2-7 cm, shallowly cordate to rounded at base, margin dentate-serrate, apex acute to acuminate, chartaceous, nervation pinnate with 9-14 pairs of nerves, rather often forking, venation transverse, indumentum various. Inflorescences simple racemes, 1-5 in the leaf axils, 6-15 cm long, peduncle 0-1 cm, with up to 25 flowers. Bracts 3-7 by 1-4 mm, also empty ones at base of peduncle. Pedicels 4-18 mm long, densely hairy and with small prickles, as is rachis. Flowers unisexual, plants probably dioecious. Hypanthium saucer-shaped, densely hairy outside, sometimes with prickles. Sepals ± elliptic, obtuse, densely hairy outside on the marginal parts, pinkish. Petals elliptic, obtuse to emarginate, long-hairy inside, white to pink. Stamens glabrous, staminodes in female flowers minute. Ovaries glabrous or with long hairs in upper part, on (slightly) elevated, hairy torus, pistillodes in male flowers minute. Collective fruits globular, up to 2 cm, probably late in attaining their final dimensions, sepals spreading. Fruits dark red to black, with thick mesocarp.
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