Liane with slender stems and branches, climbing over shrubs and small trees or scrambling over rocks; branchlets finely grooved, glab. (or ± pubescent when young). Lvs 3-6-foliolate, on petioles c. 2- 4 cm. long, ovate; lflts truncate at base, crenately to crenate-serrately toothed or lobed, glab., 1-2-(3) cm. × 5-15-(20) mm. Infl. of solitary or few fls in axils, on peduncles up to 3 cm. long; bracts narrow-ovate, acute, 1-3 mm. long. ♂ up to 3 cm. diam., often less; sepals 5-8, ± pubescent-pilose, greenish to pale yellow, ovate-oblong; stamens ∞; anthers 1-1·5 mm. long, narrow-oblong. ♀ smaller, sepals us. more pubescent; achenes pilose, becoming glab., ovoid to elliptic, margins thickened; 3-4 mm. long; styles up to 3 cm. long.

Leaflets coriaceous, glabrous, crenately to crenate-serrately lobed or toothed. Infl. a solitary fl. or a few-flowered axillary cluster. Sepals greenish to pale yellow, ovate-oblong, ± hairy.