Sometimes scandent shrub with slightly zigzag hairy stems. Coriaceous glabrous leaves to 120mm x 40mm with serrate margins. Terminal & axillary panicles, pistillate flowerheads of 11-15 flowers & 1-3 disc flowers, corollas to 4mm long with white lobes turning purple to 1.3mm long, staminate heads of 9-11 flowers. Achenes 2mm long with bristles.