Scrambling or creeping shrub with glabrate prickly stems, prickles to 4mm long, 3-foliolate coriaceous serrate margined leaves, terminal leaflets to 35mm x 25mm, lateral ones smaller. 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with bracts, greenish-white flowers, purple-red hairy sepals to 12mm x 7mm, petals to 9mm x 8.5mm, fleshy fruit to 20mm across