Shrub, green; inflorescence and leaves sparsely pubescent with stellate hairs, the hairs sometimes dense on lower leaf-surface, branchlets almost glabrous; prickles scattered to numerous on branchlets, few or absent on leaves. Leaves ovate, concolorous, entire to shallowly lobed. Entire leaves with lamina 5.5–11 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide; lobed leaves with lamina 7–17 cm long, 4–10 cm wide; petiole 1–6 cm long. Inflorescence short, few–flowered. Calyx c. 9 mm long; lobes narrowly triangular, c. 7 mm long. Corolla stellate, deeply incised, white or purple. Anthers c. 5 mm long. Berry c. 16–18 mm diam., probably scarlet. Seeds 2–3 mm long, pale yellow.