Climbing shrub with purplish-brown densely hairy zigzag stems. Mostly glabrous leaves to 95mm x 45mm. Axillary & terminal corymbose panicles sometimes with small bracts subtending heads. Pistillate flower heads 3mm long with 9-10 filiform flowers & 1 disc flower, purplish phyllaries to 3mm long. Pstillate flowers with tube 2mm long, disc flowers with whitish tube to 1.8mm long & lobes 1mm long.