Climbing subshrub with lanufinose winged branches becoming glabrescent, dentate wings. Leaves to 110mm x 10mm with apical simple tendril, densely lanuginose beneath. Orange flowers to 28mm long with 6-7 series of reddish glabrous phyllaries, outer one to 12mm x 10mm, inner glabrous mucronate phyllaries to 30mm x 7mm. 10-15 ray florets with yellow to orange bilabiate corolla, tube to 22mm long. Disc florest with bilabiate corolla with tube to 22mm long. Achenes to 5mm long with pappus to 30mm long.