Evergreen, monoecious, scandent shrub becoming ± erect at flowering. Young stems moderately to densely hairy, becoming glabrous. Lvs glabrous above, finely hairy below when young but becoming ± glabrous, not lobed, entire, ovate to elliptic, cordate and often asymmetric at base, obtuse to acute, 1.5-3-(4) cm long on young scandent shoots, up to 12 cm long on the more erect flowering shoots; veins very prominently raised below; petiole < blade; stipules 2 per node, densely hairy, triangular, caducous. Infl. hairy, pyriform to subglobose, green, shortly pedunculate. Syncarp purplish pink, 2-8 cm long; achenes not seen.