Climber with lanuginose branches. Pinnate leaves with 6-10 pairs of leaflets, glabrous leaflets to 45mm x 15mm, trifid tendrils. Terminal heads of orange-red flowers with yellow centre, 7-8 series of glabrous phyllaries, inner ones to 80mm x 6mm, 7-8 ray florets with tube 7mm long, 18-20 disc florets with bilabiate corollas, tube to 12mm long. Glabrous achenes, pappus to 24mm long.