Spiny shrub or small tree up to 3 m. tall; outer bark peeling off in broad dull yellow or grey transverse strips; exudate creamy, hardly scented, forming a hard yellowish gum-resin; long-shoots spine-tipped, straight, tapering, rather stout (± 2 mm. across 4 cm. below the tip); short spines, sometimes only 10 mm. long, also present.. Leaves simple on short-shoots, often hetero–3-foliolate on long-shoots, subsessile, 10–35 mm. long, 5–25 mm. wide, usually cuneate-obovate, less often elliptic-oblong, with 5–9 rather sharp teeth on each side, apex truncate, rounded or acute.. Flowers precocious or appearing with the leaves, sessile or nearly so, ♂ in clusters of 4–6, ♀ single or 2 together, yellowish green or pale red; calyx ± 2 mm. long, including 0.5 mm. triangular lobes; ♂ petals linear, widened towards the tip and not reflexed, ± 4 mm. long; filaments ± 3 mm. and ± 1.5 mm., anthers ± 0.7 mm. long; ♀ petals ± 3 mm.; style ± 1 mm. long; stigma subcapitate.. Fruit sometimes with 2 fertile locules and then measuring 6 × 4.5 × (2.7 + 2.7) mm., when one locule only is fertile 7–8 (including a 0.5 mm. beak) × 5 × (2 + 3.5) mm., pericarp 2-valved; pseudaril with 4 narrowly triangular rather irregular lobes, the sutural rather broader than the facial; fertile locule of stone with a well-marked carunculate shield of dehiscence; stone when 2 locules are fertile 5 × 4 × (2.5 + 2.5) mm; when one locule only is fertile 5 × 4 × (1.7 + 3.2) mm.. Fig. 4/7–9, p.16.
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A spiny shrub or small tree. It grows 3-4 m tall. The outer bark peels off in strips. There is a gum resin. The long shoots have spine-tips that taper and are stout. The leaves are simple and on short shoots. They can have 3 different leaflets. These are 10-35 mm long by 5-25 mm wide. They have 5-9 sharp teeth on each side. The flowers are in clusters of 4-6 for male flowers and 1 or 2 for female flowers. The flowers are greenish-yellow. The fruit are 6 mm long by 4.5 mm wide.
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