Shrubs, evergreen, to 2.5 m tall. Branches brownish gray or brownish yellow, terete; shoots pale yellow, sulcate, glabrous; spines simple or 3-fid, pale yellow, 1-2 cm, slender, sometimes absent. Petiole 2-5 mm; leaf blade abaxially yellow-green, adaxially green, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 4-9 × 1.2-2.2 cm, subleathery, abaxially with raised midvein and lateral veins, adaxially with slightly impressed or flat midvein, lateral veins conspicuous, both surfaces with inconspicuous reticulate veins, base broadly cuneate, margin 8-15-spinose-serrate on each side, apex acuminate. Flowers 2-6-fascicled. Pedicels 1.8-2.2 cm; bractlets ca. 2 × 1.5 mm. Sepals in 2 whorls; outer sepals obovate, ca. 4 × 2 mm; inner sepals broadly obovate, ca. 7 × 5 mm. Petals obovate, ca. 5 × 2.5 mm, base clawed, with approximate glands, apex emarginate. Stamens ca. 4.5 mm; anther connective truncate. Ovules 2 or 3, sessile. Berry subglobose or ellipsoid, 6-7 × ca. 5 mm, slightly pruinose, style not persistent. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May-Nov.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs stratification.
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