General description :- Shrubs or woody climbers; leaves alternate.

Flowers:- Small, radially symmetrical (actinomorphic), Calyx small or rudimentary; petals 5, free; stamens 5; ovary inferior.

Fruit:- A berry.

Genus:- HEDERA

Stems:- Woody, climbing or creeping, with numerous adventitious roots.

Leaves:- Simple, without stipules (exstipulate), evergreen. Indumentum of star-shaped (stellate) or round and attached at or near the centre (peltate) hairs.

Flowers:- Hermaphrodite, in round (globose) umbels, which may be solitary or grouped in a racemose panicle. Sepals very small, shaped like an equal-sided triangle (deltate). Ovary 5-celled, surmounted by a conspicuous, domed disc, terminating in a single, short style.

Fruit:- Berry globose, with 2-5 wrinkled (rugose), whitish seeds.