Parasitic perennial herbaceous twiner with glabrescent green to reddish-green stems to 4mm thick. Spike of 1-13 flowers, flower bracts to 1mm x 1.4mm & bracteoles to 0.6mm x 0.9mm, white, cream, yellow or black flowers to 3mm x 2mm, sepals to 1.3mm x 1mm, petals to 2.7mm x 1.9mm. Glabrscent green to cream fruit aging black to 15mm wide.