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Branchlets puberulous, spinescent; leaves petiolate; leaflets sessile, linear-lanceolate, flat, quite entire, as well as the petioles, ciliate, puberulous beneath; panicles terminal, puberulous; drupe glabrous. Habit of Celastrus linearis. Branches patent, scabro-punctate, branches nearly horizontal. Leaflets 1 inch long, 1.5-3 lines wide, shortly acute, uninerved with inconspicuous veins, shining, the lateral ones smaller; petiole 4-6 lines long, small-winged. Flowers minute, sometimes dioecious, racemose-panicled or the lower racemes simple; pedicels patent, 1 line long; the upper racemes disposed in a compound panicle. Fruit unripe, sub-globose.
An erect evergreen shrub. It grows up to 2-5 m high. It keeps growing from year to year. It forms thickets. The trunk is slender, rough and brown. The crown is somewhat rounded. The stems can be spiny. The leaves have 3 leaflets and these are narrowly oval to triangle shaped. There can be teeth along the edge. They often have fine hairs. The flowers are small, yellow and star like. They are in a loose group at the ends of the branches. The fruit are brown and fleshy. They are 4-5 mm across. They are almost round but slightly flattened.
Shrub, 0.4-2.0 m high; multi-stemmed, aromatic, forming dense colonies; branches grey-brown, end in spines, glabrous. Leaves petiolate, trifoliolate, sometimes fascicled; leaflets sessile, subcoriaceous, glabrous to pubescent, dark olive above, slightly paler below, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, margins entire, ciliolate. Inflorescence lax panicles, glabrous and pubescent, axillary or terminal. Flowering time Sept.-Mar. Fruit a drupe, oblate, glabrous, shiny, reddish, drying brown.
Multistemmed, aromatic, wiry dwarf shrub, up to 2 m high. Branches ending in spines. Leaflets sessile; blade narrowly obovate to narrowly elliptic, margins entire, ciliolate; terminal leaflet (17-)26(-33) x (2-)4(-5) mm. Flowers: corolla yellow; Dec.-Mar. Fruit an obloid, glabrous drupe.
Divaricate shrublet, up to 2 m high, multistemmed. Branches ending in spines. Leaflets oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic; terminal leaflet (17-)26(-33) x (2-)4 (-5) mm. Drupes oblate, obloid (± 1.2 times broader than deep). Flowers yellow.
