Shrubs, evergreen, ca. 1.5 m tall. Branches gray; shoots pale yellow-gray, angulate; internodes 2.5-3 cm; spines yellow-brown, terete, 1-2 cm, slender. Petiole 1-4 mm; leaf blade abaxially ultimately slightly brown, adaxially shiny, green, oblong-elliptic, 2-4 × 1-1.5 cm, leathery, abaxially initially glaucous, pruinose, both surfaces with indistinct reticulate veins, base attenuate, margin slightly revolute, 7-16-spinose-serrate on each side, apex obtuse. Flowers unknown. Ovules solitary, sessile. Infructescence with 5-7-fascicled berries; fruit stalk reddish, 1.2-1.5 cm; berry ellipsoid, 6-7 mm, white pruinose; style persistent, short. Fl. unknown, fr. Jun.
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