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A shrub or small tree. It can be scrambling or spreading. It can grow to 13 m tall. The branches are drooping. They zigzag. The bark is smooth and grey. The twigs can have spines at the end and in the leaf axils. The leaves are 3-9 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. They are oval and tape to the tip. There is a bristle as the end. They are dark green and shiny above and paler underneath. The flower groups are 5-15 mm long and greenish-cream. There are small bracts under them. The fruit is green but turns yellow or orange as it ripens. It is oval and 35 mm long by 20 mm wide.
Shrub tending to scramble, or small spreading much-branched tree, 1–13 m. tall; branches ± drooping, zigzag; bark smooth, grey, later fibrous and longitudinally striate; twigs shortly erect-pubescent to glabrous, often short and becoming spinose at apex; axillary spines (single) paired, 4–30 mm. long.
Inflorescences 5–15 mm. long, flowers greenish-cream, subtended by small ovate ± amplexicaul bracts, c. 1 x 1 mm., pedicels 1–3 mm. long, sepals finely pubescent.
Female flowers with sepals 1–2 x 1–1.5 mm.; ovary sparsely fine-pubescent, 3–5 mm. long; styles 7–20(30) mm. long, persistent but easily dislodged when dry.
Fruit green, ripening yellowish-orange, ovoid or depressed-globose, 10–15 x 10–14 mm. (dried), up to 35 x 20 mm. (fresh), glabrous.
Male flowers (few) 10–30 (or more), sepals 2–3.5 x 1.5–2 mm.
