Climbing or scrambling shrub, glabrate stems with curved spines to 2mm, trifoliate coriaceous leaves, terminal leaflet to 120mm x 65mm , lateral ones to 55mm x 40mm. Solitary terminal flowers with bracts, red corolla, tomentose spiny calyx, purplish or reddish tomentose sepals to 18mm x 10mm, red petals 18mm x 10mm, dark red pubescent fruit to 30mm