Erect or sprawling, clonal, herbaceous perennial to 25 cm, grey-green, pubescent with minute stellate hairs, the hairs sparse on stems and upper leaf-surface; prickles to 5 mm long, abundant on petioles and leaf-surfaces, usually fewer elsewhere. Leaves elliptic; lamina 1–9 cm long, 5–30 mm wide, discolorous, shallowly to deeply lobed; lobe margins entire to shallowly lobed; petiole 15–40 mm long. Inflorescence 4–10–flowered; peduncle 10–30 mm long; rachis 10–30 mm long, lengthening in fruit; pedicels 8–10 mm long. Calyx 3–5 mm long; lobes triangular, 1–1.5 mm long. Corolla broadly stellate to rotate-pentagonal, 4–5–lobed, 15–30 mm diam., blue. Anthers 3–5 mm long. Berry globular to depressed globular, 10–15 mm diam., pale yellow; fruiting axis including peduncle up to 12 cm long. Seeds 3–4 mm long, light grey.
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