Shrubs, deciduous, 1-2.5 m tall. Branches dark gray or purplish red, terete; shoots pale purplish red, shiny, not verruculose, glabrous; spines simple or 3-fid, concolorous, 1-3 cm, adaxially sulcate. Petiole 3-15 mm; leaf blade abaxially grayish green, adaxially green, oblong-elliptic or cuneate, papery, abaxially with obviously raised midvein, adaxially with flat midvein, both surfaces with raised reticulate veins, margin entire. Inflorescence a raceme, 10-25-flowered, 3-5 cm including peduncle ca. 5 mm; bracts 1-1.5 mm. Pedicels 5-10 mm, glabrous; bractlets ovate, ca. 1.5 × 1 mm. Sepals in 2 whorls; outer sepals elliptic, ca. 2.8 × 1.8 mm; inner sepals obovate, 3.8-4 × ca. 2.5 mm. Petals obovate, ca. 3.5 × 2 mm, base clawed, with separate glands, apex emarginate. Stamens ca. 3 mm; anther connective not prolonged, truncate. Ovules 2, with funicles ca. as long as ovules. Berry shiny, red, ovoid-ellipsoid, 5.5-6 × 3.5-4 mm, not pruinose. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Sep.
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A thorny shrub. It grows 2-3 m high. The thorny annual shoots are reddish-brown. The leaves and oblong and leathery. They can have lobes. The flowers are in large groups of yellow flowers. The flowers are 3-4 mm across. The fruit are light red berries. They are 6-7 mm long and 3-4 mm wide.
It is a temperate plant. In Kazakhstan it grows on pebbles of river terraces. It can grow in sandy and salty soils. In western China it grows in dry regions and sandy places near rivers between 600-2,000 m above sea level.
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