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Plant Description
Shrubs 0.5-1.5(-2) m tall, much branched, pubescent overall with dense, stalked, 5-11-rayed stellate hairs. Stems and branches with pale yellow, recurved prickles 4-10 x 1.5-7 mm, gray stellate tomentose. Leaves unequal paired; petiole 1.5-4 cm; leaf blade ovate, 5-8(-11) x 2-7(-8.5) cm, tomentose with short-stalked, 5-9(-11)-rayed stellate hairs adaxially, with long-stalked hairs abaxially, with straight needlelike prickles, base cordate or truncate, margin 5-7-sinuate lobed, apex obtuse or acute. Inflorescences extra-axillary, scorpioid racemes, 2-6 cm, sparingly branched; peduncle ca. 1.5 cm, prickly or not. Pedicel 4-15 mm. Calyx 4-7 mm; lobes lanceolate, 3-5 mm, unequal, pubescent and prickly as on pedicel. Corolla blue-purple, sometimes white, rotate, 1-1.2 x 1-2 cm; lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5-8 x 2-5 mm, obtuse. Filaments ca. 1 mm; anthers oblong, 5-6 mm. Style 8-10 mm, stellate pubescent. Fruiting pedicel 1-2 cm, stellate pubescent, prickly, erect or sometimes recurved. Fruiting calyx reflexed, stellate pubescent, prickly. Berry shiny orange, globose, 0.8-1.3 cm in diam. Seeds sub-discoid, ca. 2 mm in diam.
