Erect or bushy clonal shrub to 1 m, dark green, pubescent with stellate hairs; hairs dense on lower leaf-surface, sparse and mostly along veins of upper surface; minute glandular hairs also present; prickles to 15 mm long, usually abundant on most parts. Leaves ovate-elliptic, the lamina mostly 6–10 cm long, 3–6 cm wide, discolorous, deeply lobed; petiole 5–15 mm long. Inflorescence up to 7–flowered, the upper flowers sometimes male; peduncle mostly 2–10 mm long; rachis to 6 cm long, pedicels 5–8 mm long. Calyx 5–10 mm long; lobes usually linear, 3–5 mm long. Corolla campanulate-rotate, 15–20 mm long, mauve-purple. Anthers 3–4 mm long. Berry globular, usually 15–20 mm diam., dark brown. Seeds 3–4 mm long, usually dark brown.
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