Small shrub, up to 2.5 m high; branches widely divaricating, fluxuous, young branches puberulous, zigzag; leaves alternate, obovate, entire, serrate, mucronate, densely tomentose beneath, velvety above; stipular spines unequal, one spine longer, straight, reddish-brown, the other one curved, small and yellow; flowers in axillary, sessile, very short cymes or fascicles hardly reaching 1.5 cm; calyx pubescent outside, lobes-5 triangular, ovate; corolla obovate with convolute margins, greenish yellow; stamens 5, filaments short; disk 10- lobed with a pit opposite each lobe; ovary 2 celled; styles 2, united to above the middle; drupe globose, fleshy, orange, stone 1-4 seeded; seed plano convex, exalbuminous.