Large twining shrub to 5m+with new growth white-silky, stems glabrescent. Leaves to 190mm x 155mm clothed with cinereus vili on both surfaces becoming glabrescent. Dense 5 to many-flowered corymbs with bracts to 70mm x 60mm & bracteoles to 20mm x 7mm, of pink-purple flowers, bright red inside, corolla to 65mm long, sepals to 12mm x 11mm. Yellow or black berry to 15mm with persistent sepals.