Scandent shrub with stems with few hairs and prickles, sparsely hairy glabrous leaves to 120mm x 70mm with serrate margins, midrib beneath with recurved spinules. Terminal, axillary or lateral panicles minutely spinuloseto 120mm with bracts to 15mm x 1.5mm, triangular sepals to 12mm x 4mm, reddish densely velvet petals