Shrubs, evergreen, 1-2 m tall. Stems terete; branches grayish brown; shoots pale yellow, glabrous, sparsely black verruculose; spines 3-fid, pale yellow, 7-20 mm. Petiole 2-3 mm; leaf blade abaxially gray, adaxially dark green and shiny, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 4-10 × 1.5-2.5 cm, leathery, abaxially sometimes slightly pruinose, with raised midvein, lateral veins conspicuous, adaxially with slightly impressed midvein, lateral veins slightly conspicuous, both surfaces with inconspicuous reticulate veins, base cuneate, margin very slightly revolute, entire or 1-or 2-spinose-subserrulate on each side, apex obtuse, apiculate. Flowers unknown. Infructescence with 3-12 fascicled berries; fruit stalk reddish, 1-1.5 cm, stout; berry black, ellipsoid, 7-10 × ca. 6 mm, not pruinose, style not persistent; seeds 2. Fl. unknown, fr. Jun-Nov.
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