Vine, with simple axillary tendrils. Stipules bristle-like, to 1 cm long; petioles 1.5-2.5 cm long, biglandular near base, the glands large, ear-shaped, to ca 3 mm long; blades +/- ovate, shallowly trilobate (generally with the lateral lobes reduced to angles), 7-15 cm long, 4-10 cm wide, glabrous to puberulent, with numerous brownish glands ca 1 mm diam. Flowers paired in leaf axils; peduncles ca 1 cm long in flower (ca 1.5 cm long in fruit), inconspicuously jointed above middle, the bracts inconspicuous; sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, ca 1 cm long, foliaceous; petals 5, linear, shorter than sepals, whitish; filaments of corona about as long as sepals; stamens 5, united to ca 4 mm at base. Berries globose, l-2 cm diam, yellow-green, becoming black when mature, scattered-puberulent; seeds many, ca 3.5 mm long, reticulate, dark. Croat 5617. Occasional along the shore and to be expected in clearings. Flowers from October to March (sometimes from August), with the fruits maturing from March to July.