Liana, scandent shrub or subshrub with pubescent branches. Leaves to 140mm x 92mm, strigose above & tomentose beneath. Terminal or aqxillary panicles, greenish flowers turning white or fragrant violet flowers, 2 series of mucronate coriaceous phyllaries, inner ones to 4.5mm x 2.4mm, 11-12 florets, violet corolla to 8mm long with tube to 5mm long & lips to 3mm long. Glabrous achenes to 2mm long with bristly yellow-brown pappus to 7mm long.