Slender rhizomatous twiner with glabrous or pilose stems. Glabrous coriaceous leaves to 90mm x 17mm, puberulous beneath with deciduous bracts to 15mm x 1mm. Many-flowered umbels, sparsely pilose red flowers 20mm long, red sepals to 15mm x 4mm, petals to 15mm x 8mm red outside & orange within, puberulous towards base. Violet turninate fruit.