Plants 1-2 m. Stems erect, glabrous or puberulent; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. Leaves: petiole 1-4 cm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; blade roundish, 3(-5)-lobed, cleft nearly 1/4 to midrib, 3-8 cm, base deeply cordate, surfaces with colorless, sessile or stipitate glands, pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially, lobes deltate, margins bluntly toothed, apex obtuse. Inflorescences erect to pendent, 8-20-flowered racemes, 5-8 cm, axis stipitate-glandular, flowers crowded into distal 1/4-1/3. Pedicels jointed, 3-5 mm, stipitate-glandular; bracts oblanceolate, 4-8 mm, glandular-ciliate. Flowers: hypanthium bright pink to deep rose-red, turbinate, 2-2.5 mm, stipitate-glandular; sepals not to somewhat overlapping, erect, arching inward, bright pink to deep rose-red, obovate, 4-5 mm; petals nearly connivent, erect, arching inward, white, obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2-3 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens as long as or slightly longer than petals; filaments linear, 1.9-2.5 mm, glabrous; anthers cream, ovate, 0.5 mm, apex blunt; ovary stipitate-glandular; styles connate nearly to stigmas, 4 mm, glabrous. Berries palatable, blue-black, globose, 6-8 mm, stipitate-glandular.
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