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Cymes lateral, ± leaf-remote, short, unbranched, very rarely once forked, racemiform, corymbiform or sub-umbelliform, 2–7(10)-flowered, tomentose, all flowers hermaphrodite and fertile, sometimes flowers solitary; peduncle 0–1 cm long, unarmed or scarcely prickly, in fruit elongated to 1.5 cm; pedicels 3–13 mm long, slender, thickened and occasionally shortly prickly distally, erect or ± curved, in fruit elongated to 15 mm, stouter, drooping to reflexed.
Erect to spreading perennial herb or small shrub to 1.2 m, rather sparsely armed or occasionally unarmed; sympodia difoliate; hairs stellate, sessile or shortly stalked, with long to short rays, with sometimes a longer or shorter central ray; prickles yellowish to brownish, glossy, short, straight, subulate, or somewhat recurved, ± stellate-hairy to quite glabrous.
Dwarf shrub or shrub, up to 1 m high; stems hairy. Spines slightly recurved. Leaves petiolate; blade elliptic 35 x 15 mm, apex rounded, base cuneate, margins shallowly scalloped, densely stellate-hairy. Flowers: in a lateral cyme, corymbose; corolla 6-12 mm in diameter, white to violet; Sep.-Jun. Fruit a scarlet or orange berry, < 10 mm in diameter.
Fruit at first light green with dark green pattern, green, dirty olivaceous green or sulphur-coloured, soon turning yellow, orange to deep red, glossy, sometimes blackish with age, (5)6–10(12) mm in diameter, globose, with a few scattered stellate hairs or ± glabrous, fleshy and edible when mature, drying with chartaceous walls.
Corolla milky-white to purple or violet, (6)8–10(12) mm across, rotate to stelliform; tube 1.5–3 mm long; lobes 3–5.5 × 1.5–3 mm, oblong to narrowly triangular or lanceolate, acute or acuminate and often cucullate, densely hairy from the median region to the apex outside, and with a few stellate hairs along the midrib inside.
A small shrub. The stems and flowers are spiny. It can grow up to 1 m high. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaves are alternate and have deep lobes. They are densely covered with star shaped hairs. The flowers are white or violet and have 5 stamens. The fruit are small orange-red berries.
Calyx tomentose, unarmed or ± prickly mainly near the base; tube 1–2 mm long, campanulate or cupular; lobes ± unequal, 1.5–3.5(5) × 1–1.5(2) mm, ovate to linear-lanceolate, somewhat obtuse or acutish and somewhat recurved, in fruit elongated to 6 × 3.5 mm, weakly ± appressed to it.
Shrub, up to 0.6 m high. Spines sometimes present, curved. Leaves entire, with stellate hairs. Inflorescence a lateral cyme, corymbose. Corolla less than 18 mm in diameter. Fruit scarlet or orange. Flowers white to violet.
Ovary 1–1.5 mm in diameter, ± globose or ovoid, hairy usually on the upper half; style 4.5–7(7.5) mm long, capillaceous, recurved in the upper half or only at the apex, hairy on the lower half or to near the apex.
Branches whitish to greyish or yellowish to brownish or purplish-greenish tomentose, tardily glabrescent, almost always with at least a few scattered prickles.
Stamens filaments 0.3–0.6 mm long; anthers 3–4.5 mm long, elliptic to linear or ± lanceolate in outline, emarginate at both ends, ± straight.
Seeds pale yellowish to brownish, ± glossy, 2.5–3.5 × 2.5–3 mm, lenticular-reniform to discoid, somewhat to minute-reticulate all over.
Flowers (4)5(6)-merous.
