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A shrub. It grows 3-4 m high. It varies in form. The stems are often 4 sided. The leaf blade is 5-14 cm long by 2-13 cm wide. They are oval and taper to the tip. They are heart shaped at the base. There are 3-5 lobes. There are teeth along the edge. There is a hairy covering on the leaves. The flowering shoot is large. The petals are yellow. The fruit are about 10 mm across.
Inflorescences large, scarcely leafy; cymes very numerous and dense at the nodes; peduncles of cymes c. 5 mm. long; pedicels 3–5 together; bracts 2–3 mm. long, linear.
Sepals up to 11 mm. long, linear, greyish-tomentellous to almost glabrous outside; subapical horn very short as a rule but occasionally up to 0·75 mm. long.
Fruit c. 10 mm. or a little more in diam. (including the aculei); aculei uncinate at the tip, pilose or occasionally glabrous.
Petals yellow, a little shorter than the sepals, linear, subacute or obtuse at the apex, ciliate at the base.
Shrub 1–2 m. tall; stems shortly stellate-pubescent or glabrescent, often rather angled or 4-sided.
Androgynophore c. 0·4 mm. tall, glands rotund; annulus with a shortly villous upper margin.
Ovary 4–5-locular, depressed-globose, minutely echinulate.
A shrub, sometimes up to 12 or 15 ft. high, pubescent
Long-stalked ovate cordate leaves
Hairy or nearly glabrous
Fruits 1/3 inch across.
Stamens 10–12.
