Shrub or small deciduous tree, 2-6(10) m in height, hermaphrodite, sometimes with umbrella-shaped crown. Trunk straight or slightly tortuous, with bark greyish, smooth, with some longitudinal ribs; it may become rough and spiny. Wood whitish, very compact. Branches straight and rigid, rugose, very characteristic, with grey bark on older branches and reddish on younger ones. Leaves simple (5-20 \u00d7 3-7 mm), alternate, cuneate at the base, sessile, arranged in fascicles on short branchlets (brachyblasts) or singly on young branches. Leaves ovate, oblong, obovate or oblong-cuneiform, obtuse, mucronate, entire, green-whitish, glabrous or finely pubescent. Stipules very small, petiolate, caducous. Flowers axillary, small (up to 1.2 cm), grouped in sparse corymbiform cymes, frequently solitary, geminate or ternate. Calyx with 3-4 sepals, ovate-lanceolate (4-7 mm), yellowish-green and finely pubescent on the outside. Petals 0. Stamens numerous (20-40), with greenish filaments. Gynophore 1-2 cm. Fruits globose, edible berries, sometimes solitary, but more frequently arranged in rows, connected to each other by a fleshy tissue with the same surface as the berry, giving the appearance of a single subcylindrical fruit (2.5-7 \u00d7 0.7-1.5 cm), composed of several aligned spherical segments, light green when ripe. Each berry or spherical segment contains 1-6 globose seeds, about 5 mm in diameter and smooth surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12930","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n