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Leaves restricted to lateral spurs and apex of stem; blades 2.4–6 × 1.4–3 cm, narrowly to broadly elliptic, acute to subacuminate or sometimes obtuse at apex, acute to cuneate at base, strongly or moderately discolorous, glabrous, or glabrous above and sparsely pubescent at least on nerves beneath, or rarely pubescent on both faces; lateral nerves usually in 3 main pairs; tertiary nerves apparent; domatia present as small tufts of hair; petiole 1–1.6 mm long, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, or rarely pubescent; stipules 1–4 mm long, triangular, apiculate, densely pubescent within.
A spiny shrub. It grows 2-4 m high. The bark is grey or brown. The leaves have short leaf stalks. The leaves are narrowly oval and 2-5 cm long. There are 2 spines near the base of the leaf. The flowers are green and a few in a group. The fruit is squarish and green and turns yellow to orange when ripe.
Shrub, sometimes scandent, 1–5 m tall; young branches glabrous or rarely pubescent, often lenticellate, armed with spines up to 15(21) mm long, situated above brachyblasts (very abbreviated lateral branches), apparently not developing into lateral branches; bark light to dark grey or brown.
Corolla glabrous or rarely pubescent outside; tube 1–1.25 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs at the throat and pubescent immediately above; lobes 2–2.5 × 1.5 mm, triangular-lanceolate, scarcely apiculate to apiculate.
Flowers (4)5-merous, in 2–8-flowered cymes; cymes subsessile to pedunculate; peduncles up to 10 mm long; pedicels 3–10 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; bracteoles inconspicuous.
Calyx tube 1 mm long, glabrous or rarely pubescent; limb divided often almost to base into triangular or narrowly triangular lobes, 0.5–1 mm long.
Pyrene 7–12 × 4–6 mm, ellipsoid with ventral face flattened, triangular at point of attachment, crested at the apex, rugulose.
Fruit pale red, edible, 9–12 mm long and wide, square in outline, scarcely indented at apex, hardly tapered at base.
Pollen presenter spherical, 0.75 mm across; disk not prominent.
Style slightly exceeding the corolla tube.
