Shrubs, evergreen, 1.5-2.5 m tall. Branches gray-brown, terete; shoots yellow-brown, glabrous, not verruculose; spines 3-fid, concolorous, ca. 1 cm. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade adaxially deep green, oblong-elliptic or lanceolate, 4-7 × 1-1.7 cm, leathery, abaxially pruinose, midvein raised, lateral veins conspicuous, adaxially with slightly impressed midvein, lateral veins 4-8 pairs, reticulate veins inconspicuous, base cuneate, margin flat, entire or 2-4-spinulose-serrulate on each side, apex obtuse, apiculate. Flowers unknown. Infructescence with 3-8-fascicled berries; fruit stalk ca. 1.6 cm, glabrous; berry ellipsoid or oblong, 6-8 × 3-5 mm, pruinose, style persistent; seeds 3 or 4. Fl. unknown, fr. Jun.
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