It is a tall deciduous woody climber or scrambler from a large pachyform base, hairless throughout.
Caudex Seeds.
Caudex large, fleshy, smooth-skinned melon-shaped to irregularly spherical, dark green that can attain upwards of 60cm in diameter, and also grows with much of its upper portion proud of the soil. From attenuations of the main stem or from a flat surface grow narrow cylindrical trunks bearing contorted grey, vining branches
