Thorny high climbing pubescent vine with pinnate leaves of 1-3 pairs of pinnae with 1-9 pairs of mucronate leaflets glabrous or puberulent above, pubescent beneath to 50mm x 15mm, hooked prickles. Tomentose prickly racemes or panicles of glabrous green to white flowers, calyx 0.5mm long, 4-5 lobed corolla to 1.5mm long with white stamens. Glabrous unarmed legume 50mm x 15mm