Twining herb with yellow flowers, pale green fruit, white irritating hairs, crenate-dentate faintly-lobed leaves 60mm x 40mm bristly pubescent both surfaces, lateral racemes to 140mm long with bracts, female bracts 3-lobed, 3 glabrous male sepals, coriaceous female calyx 8mm long with 6 segments, flowers 1mm long, bristly-hispid capsule 5 x 9mm 3-lobed