From Sham area extending to Wadi Araba, Batra (Jordan), and Hejaz mountain.
Syria between Homs and Euphrates river area (with Pistacia atlantica)
Egypt, Libya and Morocco (with Stipa tenacissima)
Dioecious shrub: with twisted and thorny branches, glabrous or almost so, 1-2(-3) m.
Leaves: up to 2 cm., deciduous, 3-foliolate, glabrous; petiole a little shorter than the leaflets; leaflets 0.4-2 cm., sessile, obovate, cuneate, distinctly or obscurely few-lobed, lobes often dentate. Panicles short, 2-3 cm., axillary or terminal.
Flower: minute, green. Calyx about 1 mm.; lobes 5, ovate. Petals 5, 2 mm., greenish, ovate-lanceoelate, obtuse, greenish. Stamens 5.
Fruit: 5-7 mm., globular, red, glossy, glabrous.
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