spinescent

The capillitium is remarkably spinescent, the branching of the threads, rare.

Resembles the first species somewhat in habit, size, and the spinescent capillitium, but the resemblance is superficial only.

Leaves alternate, deciduous, abruptly once-pinnate; leaflets mucronate; stipules usually spinescent.

Characters of Dipsacus, but the green leaves of the involucre and involucels not rigid nor spinescent.

In the Pear and Sloe all gradations occur between spines and spine-like (spinescent) branches.