Climbing shrub, glabrous or young branches hirsute, reddish-purplish; tendril 5-8-branched. Petiole 3-8 cm long, ending in adhesive disc. Leaves 5-foliate, rarely 3-foliate. Leaflets elliptic-obovate to oblong, acuminate cuspidate or mucronate, cuneate, crenate-serrate, dark green above, and pale or ± glaucescent beneath, subcoriaceous, scarlet or reddish in autumn, glabrous or pilose beneath, 3-7 x 2-4 cm, lateral leaflets smaller, sometimes slightly oblique, petiolules 3-5 mm long. Inflorescence usually terminal, divaricate thyrsoides. Peduncle 1.5-2 cm long. Pedicels c. 3 mm long. Calyx cupular, c. 2 mm across, truncate. Petals 5, lanceolate, hooded at the apex, c. 3 mm long; stamens 2.5 mm long; disc inconspicuous, style thick, subulate; stigma short. Berry c.6 mm in diameter, bluish black in colour, globose or ovoid, ± pruinose, 1-3 seeded. Seed, more or less cordate.

Fl. Per. June-August.

Type: Described from N. America.

Distribution: A native of North America. Cultivated in the gardens of Pakistan.