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Shrub or small tree, up to 4 m tall, spiny, glabrous throughout; bark brownish grey, sometimes peeling in tiny scrolls. Leaves simple, stiff and leathery, subsessile, narrowly to broadly elliptic-lanceolate or obovate, up to 3(–4.5) x 1.2(–3) cm, acute to rounded at the apex, usually strongly crinkled and with c. 8–25 sharp teeth spread ± along the whole length of each side. Flowers apparently subsessile in small clusters, little known. Fruits subglobose, 5–6 mm in diam., apiculate or ± beaked, sessile or on up to 0.5 mm long stalk; pericarp first 2-valved but becoming 4-valved; pseudaril 4-armed; stone 3.5–5 x 3–4 mm.