Armed erect shruh, up to 1 m tall, branches stellate-pubescent, prickles stout, very sharp, recurved, yellow, shining above, usually tornentose at the broad buse. Leaves simple, ovate-elliptic, ovate-oblong, angulate, apically cuncate, hasally obliquely truncate, margin wavy or shallowly lobed, prickly along the nerves, stellate hairy with velvety above, woolly beneath, petiolate, prickly. Flowers asillary. in racmes peduncle extra axillary, paired, one bearing several male flows i in racemes, other hearing solitary, bisexual flower; calys cup-shaped, stellate hairy, teeth triangular, acute, corolla blue, stellate hairy outsid, lobes ovate, acute, stellate hairy on both sides; stamens 5. anthers narrowly oblong, porous dehiscent, filaments very short, glabrous ovary globose, hairy at the apex, style hairy below, Berry oblong, ovoid or subglobose, glabrous, yellow when ripe, seeds pale yellow, minutely pitted.

Occasional in outskirts of forests and foot hills.
Fl. & Fr.: Dec.-march

PC: Sonu Kumar
Editing: Team eFlora of rajasthan
Source: Foi, efoi, powo, wfo, ibp, iNat.
Date: Jan2K25
Loc.: Bundi

• Habit: Shrub ; Fruit Type: Berry ; Fruit Colour: Yellow & Green
• Flower Color: Purple & White & Blue
• Habit: Shrub & Herb ; Plant Height: 4 ft ; Habitat: Xerophyte & Mesophyte ; Root: Tap root ; Leaf Type: Simple ; Leaf Shape: Ovate & Orbicular & Rhomboid ; Leaf margins: Lobed ; Leaf Arrangement: Alternate ; Flower Color: Purple & Pink ; Fruit Type: Berry ; Fruit Colour: Green & Yellow