Vine, sometimes trailing on the ground, +/- glabrous. Stipules narrowly linear, ca 5 mm long, persistent; petioles 1-4 cm long, bearing a pair of ear-shaped glands in apical half; blades peltate (the petiole attached 3-13 mm from base of blade), trilobate, broadly rounded to cordate at base, 3-7 cm long, 6-25 cm wide, the central lobe occasionally suppressed to a mucro, the lateral lobes nearly horizontal, abruptly acuminate; palmate veins 5. Flowers generally paired, axillary but also racemose, the racemes opposite the leaves; peduncles jointed above the middle, the bracts inconspicuous and deciduous; sepals 5, lanceolate, ca 1.5 cm long, greenish-white to cream-colored, apetalous; corona in 2 series, the outer of filaments to 10 mm long, the inner of a few glandular filaments at most 5 mm long; operculum not generally plicate, ca 2 mm high; gynophore ca 10 mm long; ovary glabrous. Berries globose, l-2 cm diam, the exocarp generally fleshy, glaucous, green and perhaps speckled when immature, maturing dark blue; seeds many, ca 5 mm long, with about a dozen contiguous pits on each side, drying dark. Croat 5414a, 6732. Occasional, on the shore and in the young forest. Flowers throughout the year, principally in the dry season, with most fruits maturing from May to July.