A perennial, slightly woody, prickly herb up to 100 cm tall, stem and leaves glabrous or sparsely pilose with simple hairs. Leaves broadly ovate to ovate-cordate, pinnately 5-7-lobed, 4.5-18 cm x 4-12 cm, cordate at base, apex acute. Inflorescence extra-axillary, racemose, 1-7-flowered, on a short peduncle; calyx campanulate, 4-5 mm long, shortly glandular hairy, corolla rotate, about 3 cm in diameter, white, lobes lanceolate, anthers narrowed towards the apex, about 6 mm long, with apical pores. Fruit solitary or sometimes 2-3 together, globose to depressed globose, 2.5-3 cm in diameter, glabrous, orange-red when mature, calyx slightly enlarged. Seeds strongly flattened, winged all around, 4-6 mm in diameter.

PROSEA (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Foundation

The pounded roots are applied to the gums against toothache. The fruits, charred and pounded in oil, are used to treat skin complaints. The smoke of dried, pounded and burned seeds has been inhaled to cure an ulcerated nose.