Deciduous shrub with arching or climbing stems up to 7 m long. Stems rather slender. Prickles curved. Leaflets (5-) 7-9, up to 5 cm long, ovate to obovate, obtuse acute or acuminate at apex, simply or rarely doubly serrate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent above, pubescent beneath. Stipules with long fringes along the margin. Flowers white or rarely pink, ca 2 cm in diameter, in panicles, rarely in corymbs. Sepals with lateral lobes, reflexed after flowering and caduceus in fruit. Styles hairy, connected in a long column (often broken in fruit). Orifice narrow. Fruit small, globose, 6-7 mm in diameter, red wh en mature.