Shrubs ca. 1.5 m tall. Stems much branched; branches grayish white, yellowish, or rarely brown-red, stout, young branches slender, elongate, older growth with formid-able thorns 0.6-6 cm in leaf and flower fascicles. Leaf blade lanceolate, oblanceolate, or broadly lanceolate, 1.5-6 × 0.5-1.5 cm, base cuneate or subdecurrent, apex acute or obtuse. Pedicel 1-1.8 cm. Calyx campanulate, ca. 4 mm, often 2-or 3-divided halfway. Corolla purple, funnelform, 0.9-1.3 cm; tube sparingly villous inside; lobes ovate, half as long as corolla tube, ciliolate. Stamens slightly exserted from spreading corolla lobes; filaments sparsely villous slightly above base. Berry red, ovoid, or oblong 1-1.2 cm × 5-8 mm. Seeds more than 20, 1.5-2 mm. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Aug-Sep.
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