Herbaceous simple or bifid-tendril dioecious climber with glabrous stems or puberulent at nodes, stem-rooting, 5-7-foliolate leaves glabrous or hairy both surfaces, mucronate dentate leaflets, middle leaflet 60mm x 20mm, other smaller, male racemes or fascicles to 150mm long of 3mm pale green flowers, 5 sepals to 1.5mm long, 5 glabrous petals to 3mm x 1mm, panicles to 120mm long of female flowers to 4mm across, calyx tube to 1mm, calyx lobes to 0.5mm, 5 petals 1.5mm long & glabrous pale green pear-shaped fruit capsule to 16mm long x 12mm with ridges