Scandent or trailing herb to 10 m, old stems becoming woody with corky ridged bark. Leaf-blade ovate, broadly ovate, or pentagonal, cordate, sinuate-dentate, ± scabrid-punctate above, sparsely setulose to densely tomentose beneath, 1.5–11 x 1.5–11 cm, unlobed or usually palmately 3–5-lobed, lobes ovate to triangular, the central largest; petiole 0.5–7 cm long. Dioecious. Male flowers 3–many in subsessile or pedunculate subumbelliform clusters. Peduncles up to 7 cm long. Pedicels 1.5–10 mm long. Hypanthium campanulate, 2–5.5 mm long. Sepals dentiform, up to 1.5 mm long. Petals white, becoming cream then yellow with age, 1.5–3.5 mm long. Female flowers in usually sessile subumbelliform clusters. Pedicels 1–5(–10) mm long. Ovary ellipsoid, rostrate, 2.5–5 mm long, glabrous or shortly pubescent. Perianth as in male flowers. Fruits globose to ellipsoid, sometimes apiculate, fleshy, green or green with darker longitudinal lines, sometimes glaucous, red when ripe, 0.8–1.3 x 0.7–0.8 cm; pedicel 2–20 mm long. Seeds ovate in outline, 2–4 mm long.
