Erect shrub or small tree to 4 m tall, dark green or purplish-green; young growth and buds pubescent with minute stellate hairs, mature growth glabrous except along leaf veins; prickles to 1 cm long, abundant only on lower main stem and leaf-surfaces of young plants, sparse to absent elsewhere. Leaves elliptic, concolorous. Juvenile leaves with lamina 10–25 cm long, 4–12 cm wide, shallowly lobed; petiole 3–8 cm long. Mature leaves with lamina mostly 5–10 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, entire to shallowly lobed; petiole 1–2 cm long. Inflorescence short, up to 12–flowered; peduncle 1–2 cm long; pedicels 10–15 mm long, lengthened in fruit. Calyx 5–8 mm long; lobes triangular, 2.5–3 mm long. Corolla stellate, deeply incised, 2–3 cm diam, mauve. Anthers 4–5 mm long. Berry globular or obovoid, mostly 15–20 mm diam., orange-red; fruiting pedicels 20–30 mm long, distinctly thickened. Seeds 3 mm long, pale yellow-brown.
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