Shrub to c. 2 m, green or dark green, the young leaves often purplish; leaves sparsely pubescent with stellate hairs, the hairs rarely dense on lower surface; simple and glandular hairs also on pedicel and calyx; prickles 5–12 mm long, dense on main stems, scattered to abundant on leaves and peduncle, absent from pedicel and calyx. Leaves elliptic, concolorous. Juvenile leaves with lamina up to 20 cm long and 15 cm wide, deeply lobed; petiole to 5 cm long. Mature leaves with lamina 4–15 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, entire to shallowly lobed; petiole 1–3 cm long. Inflorescence often congested, 1–10–flowered; peduncle 10–15 mm long; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Calyx 8–10 mm long; lobes linear-lanceolate, 5–8 mm long. Corolla broadly stellate, 25–35 mm diam., blue. Anthers 5–6 mm long. Berry globular to slightly ovoid, 10–20 mm diam., scarlet; fruiting pedicel 20–25 mm long, thickened in upper half. Seeds 3–3.5 mm long, pale or light brown.
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