Tall woody pubescent climbing shrub with leaves to 75mm x 60mm, glabrous above & pubescent beneath. Axillary grey-pubescent cymes of 12-20 flowers, bracts 3mm long, flowers with yellow-green bilobed calyx 12mm long lobes to 6mm long & teeth 3mm long, whitish corolla tube to 25mm long with 4-lobed red or orange bilabiate limb, upper lip to 7mm x 4mm, lower lip 3-lobed & 6mm long, lobes 2mm wide. Deep purple fruit to 75mm x 12mm.