Shrubs, evergreen, to 1.5 m tall. Branches weak, terete, obviously verruculose; spines 3-fid, pale yellow, 1-2 cm, sulcate. Petiole 1-2 mm; leaf blade adaxially shiny, dark green, oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-3.5(-4.5) cm × 3-5(-8) mm, abaxially pruinose, midvein conspicuously raised, both surfaces with inconspicuous lateral and reticulate veins, base attenuate, margin slightly revolute, entire or 1-3-spinose-serrate on each side, apex acute, aristate. Flowers 3-7-fascicled. Pedicels reddish, 5-13 mm; bractlets ca. 2 mm. Sepals in 2 whorls; outer sepals reddish, ovate or suborbicular, 3.5-4 × ca. 3 mm; inner sepals suborbicular, 6-7 × 5-6 mm. Petals obovate, 5-5.2 × 3.5-4 mm, base clawed, with separate glands, apex entire. Stamens ca. 3 mm; anther connective truncate or obtuse. Ovules 2, sessile. Berry purplish black, oblong, 6-8 × 3-5 mm, not pruinose; style persistent, short. Fl. and fr. Apr-Jun.
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