High climbing pubescent or glabrate monoecious herbaceous vine. Coriaceous 3-7 foliolate leaves to 200mm x 170mm. Greenish-white to yellowish or lilac pubescent or tomentose flowers to 50mm long. Male flowers white with bracteoles, sepals to 9mm x 8mm, petals to 7mm x 6mm. Simple or rarely bifid tendrils. White axillary female flowers, sepals to 8mm x 6mm, petals to 8mm x 4mm. Green glabrescent fruit with white stripes ripening yellowish to 60mm x 50mm.