Small tree or shrub, sometimes straggling, thorny; thorns 0.5–2 cm long. Leaves alternate, deciduous after fruiting; lamina narrowly elliptic, oblong-elliptic or ovate, 4–14 cm long, cuneate, rounded or cordate at base, weakly crenate to almost entire with small marginal mucronate glands on margin, acuminate at apex, with short appressed hairs on veins below; petiole 6–20 mm long; stipules 3 mm long. Flowers many, yellow-green, 5–6 mm across, clustered; peduncle 10–40 mm long in flower, 20–50 mm long in fruit; pedicels 3–5 mm long, to 12 mm long in fruit, hairy. Sepals triangular, 2 mm long, hairy. Petals spathulate, 1.5 mm long. Disc 1.5–2 mm across, lobed. Style 3-lobed towards apex. Fruit c. 7 mm long.
Common on the north and northeastern terraces, often in areas of poor, dry soil and among limestone pinnacles and scree and in thickets on cliff edges.
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