Deciduous and herbaceous vines. Stems slightly twining, light gray or slightly brown when dry, longitudinally striate, glabrous. Petiole longer than or subequal to leaf blade; leaf blade peltate, insertion 1.5-3 cm from base, triangular or subrounded, 8-18 cm, width subequal to length, thinly papery, both surfaces glabrous or abaxially slightly puberulent along veins, base subtruncate to subrounded, margin undulate to subentire, apex obtuse or sometimes mucronate, palmately 10-veined, raised abaxially, reticulation slender and visible. Inflorescences compound umbelliform cymes, axillary or on short axillary branches with reduced leaves. Male inflorescences slightly slender; peduncle 3-7 cm; umbellet pedicels 5-7, 1.5-3 cm; cymelets slightly dense. Male flowers: pedicel ca. 0.5 mm; sepals 6, outer whorl 1-1.3 mm, inner whorl obovate or broadly obovate, 1.7-2.2 mm, relatively broader; petals 3(or 4), fleshy, very broad, 0.8-1 × 1.5-1.9 mm, margin involute, imbricate; synandrium 0.5-0.7 mm. Female inflorescences condensed to capitula; umbellet pedicel and cymelet pedicel absent when blooming. Female flowers: sepal usually 1, ovate-lanceolate, ca. 1 mm; petals 2, rotund, ca. 0.6 mm. Fruiting pedicel not fleshy. Drupes red, broadly obovate; endocarp 9-10 × ca. 8 mm. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jun-Aug.
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A soft vine. It loses its leaves during the year. The stems are winding and have lines along them. The leaf stalks are about the same length as the leaf blade. The leaf stalk joins the leaf blade about 1.5-3 cm from the edge. The leaf blade is thin and papery and triangle shaped. It is 8-18 cm long. It has 10 veins spreading out from the base. The male flowers are slender. They are on a stalk 3-7 cm long. The female flowers are small. The fruit is fleshy with a hard stone inside. It is oval and red. It is 9 mm long by 8 mm wide.
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