Plants 0.6-1.4 m. Stems erect, glabrous; spines at nodes 3, 5-15 mm; prickles on internodes absent. Leaves: petiole ca. 0.5 cm, tomentose; blade roundish, shallowly 3(-5)-lobed, cleft nearly 1/4 to midrib, 1-3 cm, base truncate, surfaces glabrous, glabrate, or hairy, not glandular, lobes broadly oblong, sides parallel, margins with 2-4 blunt teeth, apex rounded. Inflorescences ascending, solitary flowers or 2-3-flowered racemes, 1.5-4 cm, axis glabrous or with few stipitate glands, flowers evenly spaced. Pedicels not jointed, 6-8 mm, pubescent, sparsely stipitate-glandular; bracts broadly ovate, 3-5 mm, glabrous or sparsely hairy. Flowers: hypanthium greenish, broadly tubular, 2 mm, glabrous or puberulent; sepals not overlapping, reflexed, dark red or green tinged with dark red, deltate-ovate, 6-8 mm; petals connivent, erect, white, oblong, inrolled, 2-4 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens 0.9-4 times as long as petals, sometimes slightly shorter or longer than petals; filaments linear, 6-8 mm, glabrous; anthers greenish yellow, lanceolate, somewhat sagittate, 1.8-2 mm, apex apiculate; ovary with longer, glandless bristles among gland-tipped hairs; styles connate nearly to middle, 8-10 mm, glabrous. Berries palatable, red, globose, 9-10 mm, bristles stiff, glandular and eglandular.
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A spiny shrub. It grows 1.4 m tall. The stems are erect and there are spines at the nodes. The leaves are roundish with 3 lobes. The flowers can occur singly or as 2-3 in a group. The fruit are round and red and 9-10 mm across.
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