Climbing or creeping herbaceous simple-tendril monoecious vine to 10m long with striated stems. 3-5 lobed palmate leaves hispidulous above, pubescent beneath to 200mm x 180mm. Minutely pubescent greenish white or yellow axillary solitary flowers, white inside, male flowers in racemes or panicles, glabrous calyx tube to 18mm long, calyx lobes to 4mm long, corolla tube to 10mm long with lobes to 15mm long. Glabrous oval olive-green fruit ripening yellow-orange to red to 35mm long