Prickly climbing shrub with glabrous thorny branches, recurved thorns, keaves to 120mm x 70mm with serrulate maregins glabrous above except on pubescent nerves, glabrous beneath, terminal & axillary one-flowered inflorescences of 20mm diameter red flowers. calyx glabrous outside with lobes 8mm x 3mm puberulous inside, red petals 8mm x 7mm