Ziziphus nummularia (Burm. f.) Wight & Walk.-Arn.

Straggling shrub, 2-5 m high; branches divaricate, flexuous, tomentose when young; spines paired, one straight, very sharp, nearly as long as petiole, the other shorter, hooked. Leaves ovate, elliptic or orbicular, oblique or rounded at base, serrate at margin, acute or obtuse at apex, 1-2.5 x 0.5-1.8 cm, glabrous or tomentose above, tomentose to white-wooly beneath, 3-nerved at base. Inflorescences axillary 10-20 flowered cymes, short-peduncled or not. Flowers 4-5 mm across. Calyx lobes deltoid, acute, keeled nearly to base, 1.7-2.2 mm long. Petals obovate-spatulate, rounded or truncate at apex, 1-1.5 mm long. Stamens 0.8-1.2 mm long. Disc faintly 10-lobed. Ovary 2-loculed; style 2-cleft. Drupes globose, ca 0.8 cm, woody, glabrous, shining and black-red when ripe; seeds 1 or 2 compressed, black.