Plants 0.7-1.5 m. Stems erect or recurving, (rooting at nodes), glabrous or, rarely, pubescent; spines at nodes 2-3, 5-16 mm; prickles on internodes absent. Leaves: petiole to 3 cm, puberulent and stipitate-glandular; blade obovate to rotund, 3-lobed, cleft 3/4 to midrib, 1-3 cm, base rounded-cuneate, truncate, or subcordate, surfaces puberulent and stipitate-glandular, lobes oblong to rounded, margins with 2-4 rounded teeth, apex rounded to broadly acute. Inflorescences spreading, solitary flowers or 2-flowered racemes, 3-5 cm, axis pilose or puberulent and stipitate-glandular. Pedicels not jointed, 1-9 mm, pilose and densely stipitate-glandular; bracts lanceolate-ovate, 1.5-2 mm, pilose, rarely stipitate-glandular. Flowers: hypanthium greenish white, tubular, 4.5-5 mm, puberulent; sepals not overlapping, reflexed, cream, oblong-rounded, 5-7 mm; petals not connivent, erect, white, narrowly oblong to narrowly oblanceolate, inrolled and appearing tubular, 2-3 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens 4-5 times longer than petals; filaments linear, 9-15 mm, pilose; anthers reddish pink, oblong, 0.7-1.6 mm, apex rounded; ovary with gland-tipped bristles; styles connate 3/4 their lengths, 10-20 mm, glabrous. Berries palatability not known, purplish, globose, 12 mm, spiny (spines with flattened apex).
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