Shrubs, evergreen, 1-2 m tall. Branches brownish gray, subterete; shoots stramineous, glabrous; spines 3-fid, 1.5-3 cm. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade adaxially olivaceous, oblong-elliptic or narrowly elliptic, (1.5-)3-5 × (0.8-)1.4-1.8 cm, leathery, abaxially pruinose, midvein raised, lateral veins 3-6 pairs, slightly visible, reticulate veins indistinct, adaxially with impressed midvein, lateral veins indistinct, base cuneate, margin thickened, sometimes slightly revolute, 3-or 4-spinose-serrate on each side, apex acute. Flowers 3-6-fascicled. Pedicels 1.2-1.5 cm, glabrous; bractlets ovate, ca. 2.5 mm. Sepals in 2 whorls; outer sepals broadly elliptic, ca. 8 × 7 mm, apex rounded; inner sepals oblong-elliptic, ca. 9 × 7 mm. Petals oblong-obovate, ca. 6 × 4 mm, base attenuate, not clawed, with separate linear glands, apex rounded, entire or slightly retuse. Stamens ca. 5 mm; anther connective prolonged, truncate. Ovules 4 or 5, shortly funiculate. Berry black, oblong, ca. 12 × 5-7 mm, pruinose, style not persistent. Fl. Jun, fr. Sep.
Can be grown by cuttings. Seeds needs stratification.
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