Climbing, scrambling or trailing vine, stems hairy and prickly to 10m, prickles to 2mm long, leaves 5-foliolate, serrate leaflets, terminal leaflets to 120mm x 70mm. Axillary racemes to 150mm long with bracts to 7mm x 4mm, greenish-white flowers with pinkish hairy sepals, petals hairy inside, dark red to black fruit