Shrub or twiner, glabrous stemms with scattered falcate prickles, 3 or rarely 5 serrated leaflets glabrous above, downy beneath to 70mm long, blue-green glaucous leaves to red or purplish coppery, prickly petioles, corymbs of pale red flowers, sepals pubescent on back 15mm long, glabrous pink petals 25mm long