Shrubs, deciduous, to 1 m tall. Branches and shoots pale purplish red, sometimes slightly grayish white, terete; spines 3-fid, pale yellow, 0.8-2.5 cm, stout, adaxially sulcate. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade abaxially gray-green, adaxially dark green, linear-oblanceolate, 0.8-2.2 cm × 1-4 mm, abaxially not pruinose, midvein slightly raised, lateral and reticulate veins inconspicuous, adaxially inconspicuously veined, base attenuate, margin 1-3-spinose-serrate on each side, occasionally entire, apex aristate. Flowers 3-5-fascicled, sometimes forming a subracemose inflorescence. Pedicels 2-5 mm. Sepals in 2 whorls; outer sepals lanceolate, 4-4.5 × 0.8-1 mm; inner sepals obovate-oblong, 6-6.5 × 3-3.5 mm. Petals oblanceolate, 5-5.1 × 2-2.2 mm, base clawed, with very separate glands, apex incised with acute lobes. Stamens 3-3.5 mm; anther connective not prolonged, shortly apiculate. Ovary 3-3.2 mm; ovules 3-5. Berry black or red, globose, 3-3.5 × ca. 3 mm, not pruinose, style ca. 0.8 mm; seeds 5. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul-Aug. 2n = 28.
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A spiny shrub. It grows about 60 cm high. The leaves either have short stalks or no stalks. They are 0.7-2 cm long by 0.2-0.8 cm wide. The tip is spiny. The flowers are orange. The fruit are round berries 4-6 mm long. They are black.
Open windy slopes; at elevations from 2,500-3,500 metres in Nepal. Slopes, floodlands, mixed forests, streamsides; at elevations from 2,500-3,700 metres in western China. Dry stony places; at elevations from 4,200-4,800 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. They grow in Nepal at 2500-3500 m altitude. They occur on windy open slopes.
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