Shrubs or small trees, evergreen, 4-7 m tall; bark gray-brown; branchlets spiny, glabrous. Stipules not seen; petiole 5-8 mm, glabrous; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, oblong-elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, or narrowly obovate, 4-15(-20) × (2-)2.5-5(-7 cm), leathery, both surfaces glabrous, lateral veins (6 or)7-11 pairs, raised on both surfaces, base acute, cuneate, very rarely obtuse, margin serrate, apex acuminate, acumen 1-2 cm. Inflorescence of short racemes or reduced panicles borne singly or in condensed clusters in leaf axils; rachis 0.5-2 cm, glabrous or puberulous; bracts ovate (staminate flowers) to lanceolate (pistillate flowers), small, 0.5-1 mm, glabrous or sparsely puberulous. Flowers greenish, 2.5-3.5 mm in diam. Pedicels 1-2 mm, slender, puberulous. Sepals 4 or 5, persistent, ovate or lanceolate, 1-2 mm, abaxially glabrous or sparsely puberulous with spreading hairs, adaxially glabrous, margin entire to erose (× 10 mag.), glabrous. Staminate flowers: stamen filaments eventually ca. 3 mm; anthers ellipsoid, minute, ca. 0.3 mm; disk glands small, ± connate. Pistillate flowers: disk annular or few lobed, ovary ovoid, ca. 2 mm; placentas 2 or 3, each with 2 or 3 ovules; styles 2 or 3, very short, 0.5-0.8 mm or less, partly or completely joined. Berry reported as red when ripe, drying black, globose, 4-6 mm in diam.; calyx, disk, and style persistent. Seeds 4 or 5, brown when dried, ca. 4 mm, ovoid, flattened on one or more sides by mutual compression, completely enclosed in a thin sheath, sheath without dark streaks. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Oct.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 4-7 m tall. There are spines on the small branches. The leaves are oblong and 4-15 cm long by 3-5 cm wide. There are teeth along the edge. The flowers are in small clusters in the axils of the leaves. The flowers are greenish. The fruit are red when ripe. They are 4-6 mm across. There are 4-5 seeds.
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