Erect shrub to 1 m, green; stems and petioles pubescent with minute stellate hairs, leaves sparsely pubescent to glabrous on both surfaces; prickles to 7 mm long, frequent on older stems, scattered on leaf-surfaces. Leaves lanceolate-elliptic; lamina 9–18 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, concolorous, shallowly lobed; lobes bluntly triangular; petiole 1–2 cm long. Inflorescence up to 12-flowered, upper flowers male, lower flowers bisexual; peduncle 10–30 mm long; pedicels 10–15 mm long, elongated in fruit. Bisexual flowers: calyx 3–4 mm long, the lobes triangular, 2–3 mm long; corolla stellate, deeply incised, 15–20 mm diam., violet; anthers 5–6 mm long. Male flowers similar. Berry 10–15 mm diam., blood-red; fruiting pedicel 15–25 mm long. Seeds 3–4 mm long, pale buff, winged on one side.
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