Erect or scandent shrub or small tree to 4 m, the internodes to 8.5 cm long. Stems scarcely to moderately pubescent with yellow-ferruginous, sessile porrect stellae, the stellae soon deciduous, 0.3–0.4 mm broad, with 8 rays, the midpoint clinate less than 90° to flexed at the base ±90° and laying flat on the surface of the leaf, ±equal to the rays; bark reddish brown, a transparent sloughing layer absent on young stems; stems unarmed or with scattered prickles, the prickles to 2.0 × 4.0 mm, broad based, broadly triangular, retrorse, yellow-ferruginous.