Shrubby; branches very long, sarmentose, climbing high and far, pendulous; younger fruiting branchlets nodding, ashy, turning purplish in a dried state, more or less hispid with rust-coloured hairs; internodes up to 3 1/2 in. long. Leaves obliquely ovate-oblong, acutely and subcaudately acuminate, rounded to a shortly cuneate unequal-sided base, 3–6 in. long, 1–2 1/2 in. broad, thinly chartaceous or membranous, rather distantly denticulate, scabrid-punctate above, pubescent or almost tomentose with rather soft spreading hairs below especially on the nerves and veins, 3-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 5–7 on each side, arcuate, diverging from the midrib at an angle of nearly 45°, slightly prominent below; tertiary nerves rather lax, subparallel, distinct below; petiole 1/4– 1/2 in. long, densely hispid; stipules caducous, linear from a broad more or less ovate base, acute, 1/4 in. long, 1-nerved, subcoriaceous, glabrous within, hispidulous outside especially on the nerve. Receptacles axillary, solitary, obovoid-globose, 3/4–1 in. long, greenish-red when ripe, setose-pubescent. Bracts very small and scattered; peduncle or stipe about 3 1/2 lin. long, hispidulous. Male flowers with a membranous 5-lobed perianth and a single stamen. Female flowers numerous; perianth membranous, 3-lobed, glabrous; style elongated.
