Twining perennial high-climbing shrub to 4m with twining woody glabrescent stems, rugose branches. Mucronulate brown-tomentose leaves to 130mm x 100mm, glabrescent above, tomentose beneath. Axillary 1-5 flowered tomentose racemes or panicles to 60mm long with bracts to 3mm & 2mm & bracteoles. White flowers, exterior coriaceous sepals 6mm x 5mm, yellow-tomentose outside, interior sepals 1mm x 2mm, purple or white pilose corolla to 20mm long. Fruit with persistent sepals.