A shrub or small tree with spiny slender glabrescent branches. Leaves 4-10 x 1.5-4 cm, ovate lanceolate, acute or acuminate, serrate, younger leaves densely woolly, with a rounded or subcordate base, 5-8 pairs of prominent lateral nerves. Petiole 0.5-1 mm long. Inflorescence a branched raceme. Flowers sessile, 2 mm in diameter, greenish yellow, calyx lobes excluding tube, c. 1 mm long, petals less than 1 mm long, stamens c. 1 mm long. Disc deeply cup shaped. Fruit c. 5 mm long, obovoid, edible.

Fl. Per.: June to August.

Type: Described from India.

Distribution: Nepal, N.W. India, subtropical Himalayas, Concan, and Java.