Shrubs, deciduous, 0.5-1 m tall. Branches grayish black, sparsely black verruculose; shoots dark red, angulate; spines simple or 3-fid, concolorous, 4-12 mm, adaxially sulcate. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade adaxially dark green, narrowly obovate-elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 10-16 × 3-4 mm, leathery, abaxially pruinose, midvein obviously raised, papillose, lateral veins 2 or 3 pairs, adaxially with conspicuous midvein, base cuneate, margin slightly thickened, entire, occasionally 1-or 2-spinose-serrate on each side, apex obtuse, mucronate. Inflorescence an umbellate raceme, 4-8-flowered, 3-5 cm including peduncle 1-2 cm. Pedicels 4-7 mm, glabrous; bractlets lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm. Sepals in 2 whorls; outer sepals obovate to oblong-elliptic, 2-2.5 × 1-2 mm; inner sepals elliptic, 4-4.5 × 3-3.5 mm. Petals obovate, 3.5-4 × ca. 2.5 mm, base cuneate, with separate glands, apex emarginate, with 2 rounded lobes. Stamens ca. 2.5 mm; anther connective prolonged, apiculate. Ovules 1 or 2. Berry red, oblong, ca. 6 × 3 mm, not pruinose, style persistent; seeds 1. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Aug.
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A shrub. It loses its leaves during the year. It grows 1 m tall. The shoots are dark red and angular. It has simple spines. The leaves are narrowly oval and 10-16 mm long by 3-4 mm wide. There are 4-8 flowers in a group. The fruit is a red berry. It is 6 mm long by 3 mm wide.
It is a temperate plant. It grows in thickets and weedy places between 1,600-3,100 m above sea level in China. It grows in Sichuan and Yunnan in China.
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