Climbing or decumbent biennial, purplish hirsute or glabrous prickly stems, retrorse prickles. 3-foliolate more or less lobed doubly serrate hirsute leaves to 80mm long, lateral leaflets to 50mm long. Hirsute prickly terminal or axillary corymbs, white staminate petals to 16mm long, pistillate petals to 10mm long, sweet black fruit 12mm x 10mm