| MORPHOLOGY |
It is a slender prickly scrambling shrub with prickles being curved, broad-based, yellowish and numerous along the stems, otherwise almost glabrous. Leaves are rounded-ovate in outline, obtusely lobed, 2-7 cm long, slightly stellate, with a few prickles along the petiole and midrib. Inflorescences are extra-axillary, peduncle short, 3-9-flowered; pedicels widely divergent. Calyx 3 mm long, with narrow teeth, sparsely stellate. Corolla is deeply lobed, stellate-pubescent outside, purple, reflexed.
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