Perennial simple-tendril vine sometimes climbing with hispid stems & tuberous roots. 3-5 lobed leaves to 104mm x 110mm. Golden-yellow flowers, male flowers in racemes or umbels of 7-25 flowers, flowers to 12mm x 4mm, sepals to 2mm x 1.5mm, petals to 6mm long with 2 lobes, female flowers solitary to 9mm x 5mm, sepals to 3mm x 1.7mm. Fruit green with green white longitudinal lines to 35mm x 15mm.