Herbs or subshrubs, erect, ca. 1 m tall, armed with straight prickles, pubescent with stellate hairs. Stems and branches shaggy-tomentose with stalked, 5-9-rayed stellate hairs and erect, broad-based prickles 2-5 × 1-1.5 mm. Leaves paired; petiole 4.5-6 cm; leaf blade ovate-elliptic to elliptic, 16-24 × 12-19 cm, tomentose with 4-9-rayed hairs, sparsely prickly, base cuneate, margin 10-14-dentate, apex acute. Inflorescences extra-axillary, elongated, many-flowered scorpioid racemes, 5-10 cm; peduncle ca. 2 cm. Pedicel 5-10 mm. Calyx campanulate, 1-1.2 cm; lobes oblong-lanceolate, 8-9 × 3 mm, densely pubescent with pale yellow, stellate hairs. Corolla blue or purple, 1-1.2 × 1.5 cm; lobes lanceolate, ca. 7 × 3 mm, pubescent as on calyx. Filaments less than 1 mm; anthers lanceolate, ca. 7 mm. Ovary glabrous. Style ca. 9 mm. Fruiting calyx with stellate hairs and dense erect prickles, enveloping most of berry. Berry (immature?) globose, glabrous, ca. 1.2 cm in diam. Seeds brownish, discoid, ca. 2.5 mm in diam. Fl. summer.
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A herb or small shrub. It grows 1 m tall. It has straight prickles. It is also hairy. The leaves are in pairs. The leaves are narrowly oval and 16-24 cm long by 12-19 cm wide. The flowers are near the axils of the leaves. They are blue to purple. The fruit are round berries. The seeds are brown.
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