Stems to 2 m., prostrate or scandent, shortly puberulous, sulcate, setulose on ridges, when older softly woody, with grey bark, white-callosed on ridges. Leaf-lamina 2·0–5·4 × 2·1–6·6 cm., ovate to subhastate in outline, deeply cordate, finely asperulous or scabrid and more coarsely scabrid-setulose on veins, beneath, finely scabrid above, palmately variously 3(5)-lobed, lobes almost plane to irregularly sinuate-denticulate or lobulate, acute to rounded, apiculate, the central largest. Petiole 1–3·5 cm. long, shortly retrorsely puberulous, setulose on ridges. male flowers about 4–10 in subsessile axillary clusters; peduncles up to 3 mm. long; pedicels 1·5–2·5 mm. long. Receptacle-tube 1·2 mm. long; lobes 1–1·2 mm. long, lanceolate. Petals 1·4–1·5 mm. long, pale yellow to white. female flowers 1–6, subsessile; ovary 3·5 mm. long, ellipsoid, puberulous. Fruits 9–13 × 7–9 mm., 1–6, subsessile, ovoid, not or only shortly rostrate; pedicels up to 2·5 mm. long. Seeds 4–4·5 × 2·8–3 × 2·1–2·6 mm., asymmetrically ovoid, tumid, somewhat compressed at the apex, with slightly rugose faces and prominent margins.
