It is a large woody climber, with stem 10-25 cm across; branches velvet-hairy; bark fissured, grey or dark brown, usually red in fissures. Leaves are alternately arranged, 3-15 x 2-6 cm, ovate-lanceshaped, oblique at base, rounded toothed-sawtoothed at margin, blunt or somewhat pointed at tip, somewhat leathery, velvet-hairy; lateral nerves 5-8 pairs; leaf-stalks 3-10 mm long, furrowed, velvet-hairy. Flowers are greenish-yellow, carried on stalks 1-4 mm long. Sepals are triangular, 2-2.5 mm long, hairy, petals spoon-shaped, notched at tip, 1-1.5 mm long. Stamens are 1-1.5 mm long; connectives prolonged. Disc is 5-lobed, ovary hairy, 2-loculed; stigmas 2, divergent. Fl. & Fr.: Nov.-MarchPC: Sonu Kumar