Shrub to 5 m high, often multistemmed; branchlets terete or subterete, yellowish, glabrous. Leaves semi-deciduous; lamina elliptic or ovate to ovate-elliptic, sometimes obovate to narrowly obovate, (2–) 2.5–6.5 cm long, (0.8–) 1.2–2.4 cm wide, attenuate, entire to spinulose at margin (coarsely serrate in summer shoots), acuminate, chartaceous, dull green above, paler yellow-green below; spines absent or 1–3-partite, to 15 (–20) mm long. Flowers pale yellow; pedicel to 7 mm long, yellowish. Fruit oblong to ellipsoidal, c. 7–9 mm long, dark purple-red or purplish, pruinose when ripe; style 2–5 mm long, persistent.
Usually disturbed areas, recorded growing in weedy shrubland, woodland and open eucalypt forest; sometimes forming thickets.
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