Climbing or scrambling prickly vine to 4m with glabrate stems and red prickles to 9mm long, 3-foliolate serrate leaves with terminal leaflets to 70mm x 35mm lateral ones shorter and broader. Terminal cymes with bracts, white flowers, hairy prickly sepals to 14mm x 8mm, petals to 11mm x 9mm, orange to red fruit to 15mm across