A shrub 120-170 cm or more tall. Stem and branches sparsely prickly, stellate tomentose. Leaves 9-13 x 5-10.5 cm, ovate-sinuate, stellately pubescent tomentose. Flowers pale white, in compact paniculate cymes. Peduncles stout, 10-40 mm long. Calyx pubescent. Berry globose, 8-12 mm broad, yellow. Seeds c. 2 mm broad.