Climbing or prostrate tendril vine with glabrous or puberulent furrowed stems. l 3-5 lobed hirsute scabrous denticulate leaves palmately lobed to to 150mm long. Green flowers with clinging fruit, male flowers in 10-30 flowered racemes, pilose calyx 4mm x 4mm, white corolla to 11mm wide, female flowers two-five flowered. Angulate prickly fruit to 16mm long.