A scrambling or weakly climbing, perennial herb, stems up to 6m long, leafy, lowersurface more or less purple, at the base of the stem petiolate, higher up petiolate orsessile, sometimes auriculate; inflorescence a series of axillary and terminal corymbsof up to 20 heads, these cylindrical to turbinate, longer than broad, peduncle up to6cm long, inner involucral bracts 8-13, with a length of 8-17mm, glabrous; corolla 10-16mm long, yellow, turning red; fruit 5-6mm long. (Malaysia)