Erect, clonal shrub to 1 m, dark green or rusty-green, the growing tips, pedicels and calyces often rusty; densely pubescent, often woolly, with stellate hairs; prickles to 8 mm long, usually scattered on stems, generally absent elsewhere. Leaves ovate to oblong; lamina 2–7 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, slightly discolorous, entire or shallowly lobed; petiole 5–13 mm long. Inflorescence short, 1–10–flowered; peduncle to 15 mm long; pedicels 5–15 mm long. Calyx 4–10 mm long; lobes oblong to obovate, 2.5–5.5 mm long. Corolla rotate-pentagonal, 25–40 mm diam., purple. Anthers 4–6 mm long. Berry globular, 5–10 mm diam., pale yellow. Seeds 1–2 mm long, dark brown.
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