A glabrous, dioecious shrub, with slender young branches; old branches are spinescent. Leaves are linear. Inflorescence is a many-flowered raceme bearing yellow flowers with oblong-ovate sepals; petals are usually absent. Fruit is a globose, subsessile berry, white at maturity and turning red when drying with tuberculate, dark brown seeds.
Mediterranean region, Egyptian desert, Res Sea coastal strip, Gebel Elba and Sinai (St.Katherine).
Libya to Pakistan, Somalia, Ethiopia.
