Erect or sprawling shrub, green, male or bisexual; younger parts sparsely pubescent with minute stellate hairs, the stems and leaves soon glabrous; prickles to 7 mm long, abundant on all parts. Leaves lanceolate; lamina 3–6 cm long, concolorous, deeply lobed; lobes narrowly linear; petiole c. 1 cm long. Male plant: inflorescence 6–20– flowered; rachis to 8 cm long; pedicels c. 5 mm long; calyx 5–7 mm long, the lobes lanceolate, 3–4 mm long; corolla rotate, 20 mm diam., purple; anthers 3 mm long. Female plant: flowers solitary, pedicels c. 8 mm long, calyx 7–9 mm long, enlarged in fruit, the lobes linear, 4–5 mm long; anthers 2–5 mm long. Berry c. 20 mm diam.
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