Shrubs, deciduous, to 1 m tall. Branches dark brown, sulcate, black verruculose; spines 3-fid, yellow-brown, 1.5-2.5 cm, slender, adaxially slightly sulcate. Petiole 2-3 mm; leaf blade adaxially olivaceous, elliptic or obovate, 1.5-2.5 × 0.5-1.5 cm, papery, abaxially slightly pruinose, midvein and lateral veins obviously raised, reticulate veins conspicuous, adaxially with slightly raised midvein, lateral and reticulate veins conspicuous, base cuneate, margin closely spinulose-subserrulate, apex rounded, mucronate. Flowers unknown. Fruit solitary; stalk ca. 1 cm, stout; berry red, broadly ellipsoid, ca. 2 × 1.2-1.4 cm, blue pruinose, style not persistent; seeds 6 or 7. Fl. unknown, fr. Oct.
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