Shrubby vine with small yellow recurved prickles. Hoary-tomentose undersides of leaves & branches, leaves to 100mm x 50mm, prickly on leaf nerves beneath, downy above, stellate down on both surfaces. Few-flowered leaf-opposed or lateral prickly racemes of white flowers, lobed calyx with tube 3mm wide, hoary-tomentose on outside of corolla, white corolla with lobes 10mm long. Glabrous berry 10mm wide, variegated white & green or yellow with persistent calyx.