Liane, dioec., with stout climbing stems up to c. 10 m. long, or forming bushes with interlacing branchlets when lacking support; branchlets with red prickles or unarmed. Lvs ternate (occ. 3-lobed only) rarely quinate with a pair of small basal lflts. Lflts ovate to oval, or lanceolate to broad-elliptic, coriac., glabrate and ± rugose above, densely clad in ferruginous to greyish tomentum below, subacute to acute or acuminate, bluntly serrate, rounded to subcordate at base; stipules linear; veins prominent below, midrib unarmed or nearly so, lamina 15-35 × 2-6 cm., with petiole up to 5 cm. long. Fls in panicles up to 10 cm. long, occ. reduced to racemes; sepals ovate-oblong to broad-ovate, 2-6 mm. long, pubescent; petals 5, white, c. 4-7 mm. long, ovate to broad-ovate; ♂ with ∞ stamens; ♀ with ∞ carpels; fr. c. 5-7 mm. long, of ∞ aggregated drupelets, flesh yellowish.

Liane with stout stems, or a dense, mound-like shrub of intertwining branchlets; stems terete, finely tomentose especially when young; armature of small, reddish prickles, or 0. Lvs palmate; leaflets 3-(5), glabrous or almost glabrous and rugose on upper surface, usually white- to brown-tomentose on lower surface and sometimes greyish or glaucous, sometimes glabrous to almost glabrous on lower surface also, coarsely serrate; terminal leaflet lamina usually narrow- to broad-ovate, oblong or lanceolate, rarely linear or narrow-linear, 25-70 × 4-40 mm, with petiolule 10-30-(50) mm long. Infl. a many-flowered, sometimes compact, panicle, up to 10-(25) cm long. Petals white to cream. Drupelets yellowish or orange.