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Shrubs, evergreen, 1-2 m tall. Branches blackish gray, angulate; spines 3-fid, 5-7 mm, slender. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade abaxially yellow-green, adaxially olivaceous when dry, lanceolate, 10-17 × 2-2.5 cm, leathery, abaxially not pruinose, midvein raised, adaxially with slightly impressed midvein, lateral veins 14-16 pairs, both surfaces with conspicuous reticulate veins, base cuneate, margin flat, 10-25-spinose-serrate on each side, apex acuminate. Flowers unknown. Infructescence with 4-8-fascicled berries; fruit stalk 2-2.5 cm glabrous; berry ellipsoid, 5-6 × 4-5 mm, blue pruinose, style not persistent; seeds 2. Fl. unknown, fr. Jun-Aug.

● Mixed forests; 1400-1500 m. Yunnan.