Habitat : Common on Ridges and in otrher drier parts
Comments / notes : The friuts are sold in the market
Key identification features : A leaffless, diffuse, much-branched, spinous shrub or small tree, straggling, twining or suffruticose. Throns paired, short, straight or recurved.
Flower, Fruit : January-August
Distribution :
Delhi : Vasant Kunj
Native : Mauritania to Andaman & Nicobar Islands
Exotic/Native : Native
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Maheshwari K.J (1963). Flora of Delhi: 65; Duthie J.F.(1960). Flora of The Upper Gangetic Plain Vol.1: 51