Erect shrub to 2 m, dark drab-green, pubescent with stellate hairs, the hairs sparse on upper leaf-surface, moderately dense on lower surface; prickles to 1 cm long, scattered on young growth, absent from mature growth and infloresence. Leaves discolorous. Juvenile leaves broadly ovate, the lamina up to 17 cm long, 12 cm wide, shallowly lobed; petiole 1-4 cm long. Mature leaves broadly lanceolate to elliptic; lamina mostly 6-9 cm long, 3-4 cm wide, sometimes larger, entire or shallowly lobed; petiole to 1.5 (4.5) cm long. Inflorescence 3-9-flowered; peduncle to 5 mm long; rachis to 1 cm long, pedicels 8-10 mm long. Calyx 5-8 mm long; lobes lanceolate with linear apices, 4-8 mm long, slightly longer in fruit. Corolla broadly stellate, 25-35 mm diam., bluish-purple. Anthers 4-6 mm long. Berry globular or depressed globular, 15-20 mm diam., green or yellow-green. Seeds 1.5-2 mm long, pale yellow or brown.
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