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Shrubs 1-1.5 m tall, sparingly armed, densely pubescent overall with rust-colored, short-or long-stalked stellate hairs. Stems angular, with short prickles 2-3 × 1-1.5 mm. Petiole stout, 1-3 cm, sometimes armed; leaf blade broadly ovate or elliptic, 8-20 × 4-14 cm, base obtuse or cordate, often asymmetric, 3-5-lobed to parted; lobes deltate or long deltate, unequal, irregularly sinuate, densely pubescent with rust-colored, stalked stellate hairs, denser abaxially, acute or subobtuse at apex. Inflorescences extra-axillary, many-flowered racemose panicles; peduncle mostly 2-or 3-branched, 5-12 mm, pubescent as on stems. Pedicel stout, 5-10 mm. Calyx cup-shaped, 5-8 mm; lobes deltate-lanceolate, 4-6 mm, acuminate at apex, pubescent as on peduncle. Corolla white, 1.5-1.8 cm; lobes ovate-oblong, 0.8-1.2 cm, acute. Filaments 1-2 mm; anthers oblong, 6-8 mm. Style 8-10 mm. Berry yellow-orange, globose, 8-10 mm in diam. Seeds discoid, 1.5-2 mm in diam. Fl. and fr. throughout the year.
Leaves solitary or geminate, sometimes closely set at ends of branches; petiole 1–11 cm long; lamina rather leathery and rough to touch, 7–47(60) × 4–31(35) cm, broadly ovate to cordate, sometimes elliptic, base obtuse to cordate or truncate, often dimidiate, rarely equal-sided, apex acute to long-acuminate, entire to broadly, deeply and irregularly lobed, the lobes 7–13, rounded to ovate-lanceolate, apically rounded to acuminate, entire to lobulate, the sinuses rounded, hispid above with appressed, short, ± sessile hairs often bearing a long and apically recurved central ray, felty tomentose beneath with mostly brownish hairs, with 5–8 pairs of curved-ascending lateral nerves, sparingly prickly at least on the midrib or unarmed.
Shrub or small tree, up to 3 m high; stellate, red-brown hairs on all parts. Prickles 2-6 mm long, stout, sparse, flattened, straight or ± recurved. Stems grooved. Leaves broadly ovate to elliptic, margins sinuate, 7-13-lobed, base unequal, upper side scabrid and appressed-hairy, underside densely hairy; petioles up to 180 mm long. Inflorescence dense; peduncles 10-25 mm long; pedicels 10-15 mm long. Calyx densely hairy; tube 3-4 mm long; lobes linear-lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, larger in fruit. Corolla stellate, 30-50 mm in diam.; lobes 10-15 mm long. Fruit globose, 10-15 mm in diam., ripening ± yellow, glabrous, glossy, hard. Seeds 100-250, 2-3 mm in diam., flat, ± brown, shiny. Flowering time all year.
Shrub or small tree up to 7.5 m, armed, but flowering branches sometimes unarmed; hairs stellate, ± long stalked to sessile, ± irregular, sometimes with a rather shorter or longer central ray, sometimes bristle-like; prickles reddish-brown to dark purple, 2–8(9) mm long and 1–8 mm wide at the base, laterally compressed and wide towards the base, stout, straight or recurved, subulate upwards, striate, often basally pubescent.
Cymes lateral, extra-axillary or axillary, at first appearing terminal, unbranched, once-forked or more-branched, racemiform, sometimes scorpioid or corymbiform, 4–10 cm long, 4–9 cm across, congested, many-flowered, tomentose or hispid with rusty-red hairs, all flowers hermaphrodite and fertile; peduncle 0.6–3 cm long, stout.
Calyx 6–12 mm long, 7–10 mm across, very accrescent to 12 mm in diameter, cyathiform; lobes unequal, 4–10 × 1.5–2 mm, linear or lanceolate, acuminate, in fruit enlarged to 12 × 4 mm, at first curved out at the apex, later reflexed, the sinuses tomentose to subglabrous.
Flowers 5(6)-merous; pedicels 0.8–1.2 cm long, stout, tomentose or hispid, sometimes glandular, and also with a few simple hairs intermixed, in fruit elongated to 1.5 cm, erect and stouter, with marked corky thickenings towards the point of attachment.
Corolla white, occasionally bluish, stelliform; limb 1.8–3 cm across; lobes 5–12 × 4–10 mm, lanceolate, acuminate or acute, pubescent outside, glabrous or with a few hairs along the midrib inside, spreading or sub-reflexed.
Ovary c. 2 mm long, ovoid-ellipsoid, sulcate, sometimes tuberculate, sparsely glandular-pubescent or glabrous; style (10)12–13 mm long, exceeding the stamens, sparsely glandular-pubescent at the base.
Branches tomentose to hispid or hirsute with bright rusty to rusty-brown hairs bearing long stalks and often elongate central rays, somewhat glabrescent.
Fruits green, later yellowish to drab orange-yellow when ripe, drying brown, (10)13–20 mm in diameter, globose, hard, mucilaginous, glabrous.
Seeds ± numerous, shining, yellow to light brown, 2–3 × 1.5–2.5 mm, compressed, ± reniform, verruculose all over.
Stamen filaments 1–2(3) mm long; anthers (6)7–8(9) mm long, slender, oblong-conical, not cohering.
