The fruit is green, splitting to form a pinkish receptacle with 3 to 7 black or red drupes.

Palmeria scandens is tall woody climber, its stems covered with star-shaped hairs.

[4][5][6] Flowering occurs from May to September, and the fruit is green on the outside, before splitting to reveal a pinkish receptacle, with 3 to 7 black or red more or less spherical drupes.

[4][5][6] Palmeria scandens was first formally described in 1864 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae, from material collected by John Dallachy at Rockingham Bay.

[9] Anchor vine is widespread in rainforest from Batemans Bay in southeast New South Wales to the McIlwraith Range on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, at altitudes from near sea level to 1,500 m (4,900 ft),[4][5][6] and also occurs in New Guinea.