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Shrub or small tree 1–5(8) m tall; young branches glabrous or sometimes pubescent, often with a few lenticels, armed with spines 1–4.5 cm long, situated above brachyblasts (abbreviated lateral branches) perpendicular or upwardly angled; bark rusty-brown when young, grey when older.
Corolla creamy-white; tube 2–2.5(3) mm long, densely choked with finely moniliform hairs at throat, those above erect and those beneath deflexed; lobes (2)3.5–3.75(4) × 1.5–1.75 mm, narrowly oblong, thickened and obtuse at apex, reflexed.
Flowers 4-merous, borne in pedunculate many-flowered, corymbose cymes arising from brachyblasts; peduncles 8–35 mm long, glabrous to pubescent; pedicels 3–12 mm long, glabrous to pubescent; bracts and bracteoles inconspicuous.
Style exceeding corolla tube by a little more than twice; pollen presenter 1–1.25 mm across, cylindrical, 3–4-lobed at apex; ovary 3(4)-locular.
Anthers exserted but not reflexed, dorsal face covered with darkened connective tissue except for margin.
Fruit orange, 1–3(4)-seeded, 10–15 mm long, varying in shape according to number of seeds developing.
Calyx tube 1–1.25 mm long, glabrous; limb 0.5–0.75 mm long, repand or shortly toothed.
Pyrene 8 × 5 × 4 mm, flattened ellipsoid, clearly crested around the apex, rugulose.
Seeds 6.75 mm long, flattened ellipsoid, ± winged at the apex.
