Stinging twining liana with greenish-yellow flowers, dentate leaves setose on nerves both surfaces 150mm x 5mm, fruit green with stinging hairs, lateral racemes\e to 50mm long with several male flowers & 1-2 female flowers, male bracts puberlous 4mm long, female bracts toothed with toothed bracteoles, male flowers with 3 puberulous sepals, female calyx with 6 segments 10mm long, pilise capsule 5mm x 9mm 3-lobed