Shrub, evergreen, hermaphrodite, spinescent, up to 1.5 rn in height; with erect turions, curved-decumbent, cylindrical at the base, obtusely angled at the top, glaucous-pruinose, usually hairless; with scattered prickles, straight or slightly twisted, dilated at the base, sometimes with few acicular prickles and glandular hairs. Turion leaves large, lower leaves generally with 5 palmate leaflets, upper leaves with 3. Petiole subcylindrical, glabrous or \u00b1 hairy, with \u00b1 twisted prickles and usually many glandular hairs. Stipules filiform, \u00b1 pubescent and usually with glandular hairs. Leaflets \u00b1 irregularly dentate, with acuminate teeth, green and hairless on the upper side and white-tomentose on the underside with short appressed hairs; terminal leaflet usually broadly oval, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, \u00b1 acuminate at the tip, lateral leaflets smaller, oval, unequal. Flowering branches usually tomentose, with prickles and glandular hairs, with ternate leaves and lateral leaflets shortly petiolulate. Inflorescence in very long panicle (up to 30 cm), \u00b1 lax, foliose only at the base. Bracts similar to stipules; pedicels usually longer than the flower. Flowers 2 cm in diameter. Sepals concave, oval-lanceolate, acuminate, villous-tomentose and white on both sides, with glandular hairs on the outside, reflexed from anthesis. Petals white, hairless, ovate-oblong, 8 mm. Stamens longer than the styles, yellow anthers, 0.75 mm. Ovary glabrous; greenish-white styles, glabrous. Drupes small, ovoid-subglobose, numerous, red at first, then black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12756","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n