Sprawling, annual or short-lived perennial herb with stems to 45 cm long, dark green or purplish-green; sparsely pubescent with minute stellate hairs, the young growing points also with minute glandular hairs; prickles to 10 mm long, few on peduncle and pedicel, frequent on most other parts. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic; lamina mostly 5–8 cm long, 3–5 cm wide, sometimes larger, concolorous, deeply lobed; lobe margins toothed or lobed; petiole 5–15 mm long. Inflorescence short, 1–6–flowered; peduncle 1–10 mm long; pedicels usually 8–10 mm long, slightly longer in fruit. Calyx 5–7 mm long; lobes narrowly triangular, 1–4 mm long, the veins prominent. Corolla campanulate, 10–15 mm long; limb broadly stellate; lilac-blue. Anthers 2–2.5 mm long. Berry globular or obovoid, 15–20 mm diam., drab green or purple when ripe; fruiting pedicels 10–20 mm long. Seeds 2–3 mm long, ivory or pale yellow.
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