A perennial, slender twiner, 3—6 m long, patently hirsute with yellow hairs, adult parts woody, glabrescent and warty. Leaves rounded in outline, palmately divided nearly to the base, segments 5—7, middle segment 2.5—10 cm x 0.5—3 cm, lateral ones smaller, apex mucronulate, margin coarsely dentate to irregularly pinnately lobed, petiole 2.5—7 cm long; flowers few together, peduncle 5—10 cm long. Flower-buds narrowly ovoid, acute, pedicel 1.5—2 cm long, sepals subequal, 2—2.5 cm long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, margin scarious, enlarged in fruit, corolla funnel-shaped, 3—3.5 cm long, white, throat rose-purple, mid-petaline bands distinct, anthers spirally twisted. Capsule globose, glabrous. Seed glabrous, black.

Resolvent and sedative (leaves).

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

An infusion of the leaves is taken as a sedative in chest complaints. Fresh crushed leaves are used as poultice for inflammations. A cold infusion is a remedy for giddiness, snake bites or intoxication. A hot infusion is taken to relieve urinary infection.