Shrubs, deciduous, to 1.5 m tall. Branches dark gray; shoots red, slightly sulcate, glabrous; spines 3-fid, 5-11 mm. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade adaxially green, elliptic or oblanceolate, 1.2-2.1 cm × 5-8 mm, papery, abaxially rugose, veins very inconspicuous, adaxially smooth, midvein impressed, base cuneate, margin entire, occasionally 1- or 2-spinose-serrate on each side, apex acuminate or acute. Flowers 3- or 4-fascicled. Ovules 2. Fruit stalk 8-11 mm, glabrous; berry red, ellipsoid, ca. 9 × 5 mm, scarcely pruinose; style not persistent, sometimes apex slightly bent; seeds 2. Fl. unknown, fr. Aug-Sep.

● Streamsides in thickets, foot of mountains; 4200-4300 m. Xizang (Namling).