An evergreen bush. It grows 2.5-5 m tall. It keeps growing from year to year. There can be thorns on the stems. The bark is grey-brown. The branches are somewhat square. The leaves are crowded on spur like branches. The leaves have 3 leaflets. They are dark green and leathery. The flowers are small and star like. They are green to yellow. The fruit are flattened and 5 mm across. They are shiny green and turn red then brown as they ripen.
Tree or shrub, 0.25-5.00 m high; much branched, evergreen, sometimes thorny, divaricate; bark grey-brown, granular; branches and branchlets squarrose, lenticels prominent. Leaves petiolate, trifoliolate; leaflets sessile, subcoriaceous, olive-green, glabrous, obcordate, emarginate, sometimes covered with a shiny resinous exudate. Fruit a drupe, ovoid, slightly flattened, glabrous, shiny, chestnut-brown.
Dioecious, much-branched, evergreen shrub, up to 5 m tall. Leaves trifoliate, crowded on spurs, leaflets sessile, obtriangular to obcordate, olive-green on both surfaces, apex notched. Flowers pale yellow. Drupe ellipsoid, shiny chestnut-brown.
Much-branched shrub, up to 5 m high, shiny and sticky, often spiny. Leaflets sessile; blade obtriangular, apex emarginate, margins entire; terminal leaflet (7-)13(-23) x (3-)7(-13) mm. Flowers: Mar.-Jun. Fruit an ellipsoid, glabrous drupe.