Tall woody cauliflorous climber with striate lenticellate stems, leaves sometimes 3-lobed, coriaceous and glabrescent, to 190mm x 110mm. Male panicles to 230mm x 40mm, grey-pubescent flowers, 4 or 5 imm calyx segments fringed with long hairs at apex, 4 sparsely hairy 1.5mm petals