Scrambling shrub to 4 m, green; leaves pubescent with minute stellate hairs, the hairs sparse on upper surface, dense on lower surface; prickles 2–3 mm long, common on stems and petioles, scattered on juvenile leaves, few or absent on mature leaves; leaves discolorous. Mature leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic; lamina mostly 10–15 cm long, 6–9 cm wide, entire to shallowly lobed; petiole 2–6 cm long. Juvenile leaves broadly elliptic, the lamina up to 20 cm long, 13 cm wide, lobed; lobe margins shallowly lobed; petiole 6–7 cm long. Inflorescence to 12–flowered; peduncle 5–10 mm long; rachis up to 10 mm long; pedicels 10–15 mm long, longer in fruit. Calyx 5–6 mm long; lobes broadly lanceolate, 3–5 mm long, sometimes several fused. Corolla stellate, deeply incised, 15–35 mm diam., light purple. Anthers 5–6 mm long. Berry globular, 15–35 mm diam., ripe colour not known; fruiting pedicel 15–40 mm long. Seeds 1.5–2 mm long, yellow-orange.
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