Shrub or subshrub, deciduous, hermaphrodite, spiny, up to 1.5 m in height. Very ramose, \u00b1 intricate, with strong straight or slightly curved spines, about 8-10 mm, usually in groups of 3. Stems and old branches greyish \u2014younger ones whitish\u2014, a little fissured. Younger branches pubescent, greenish. Leaves alternate, grouped into short brachyblasts. Its outline is suborbicular, 0.7 to 5(6) cm in diameter, palmatifid or palmatipartite with 3-5 \u00b1 deep lobes, scalloped, pubescent on both sides, but particularly on the underside and margins, hairs a mix of eglanduliferous and glanduliferous or, frequently, glabrescent; green on both sides, but a little darker on the upper side, petiolate, with petioles nearly as long as the leaf. Flowers axillary, solitary, sometimes geminate, rarely ternate, with articulated pedicel. Calyx with 3-5 sepals, obovate-oblong, with rounded tip, about 3 mm long, pink or greenish-pink, petal-like. Corolla with 5 very small petals (1.3-1.5 mm), almost squamiform, same colour as the sepals. Stamens 5, erect, with white-pink filaments and yellow anthers. Fruit an ovoid-globose berry 8-15 mm long, crowned by the marcescent perianth, with glanduliferous hairs or glabrous, greenish, yellowish or purple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-11901","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n