Herbaceous perennial climber to 12m with brown hairy stems. Palmately 5-lobed hairy leaves to 180mm x 180mm with bracts to 4.5mm, simple or bifid tendrils. Orange-yellow flowers in racemes with bracts to 4mm, calyx lobes to 15mm, yellow to orange corolla sometimes marked purple to 62mm with lobes to 32mm, solitary female flowers similar to male. Yellow to red succulent fruit 90mm x 25mm. Green fruit with pale yellow patches