Ziziphus nummularia (Burm, f.) Wight & Arn. in R. Wight., Cat. Ind. Pl.: 31. 1833; Lawson in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 633. 1875; Parker, For. Fl. Punj. ed. 1: 242. 1918 (Reprint 1973) Maheshwari, Fl. Delhi 102. 1963; Maheshwari, IIIustr. Fl. Delhi. f. 45. 1966; Singh & Sharma, Fl. Chamba Dist. 227. 2006; Fl. Pak. @ eFloras.org p. 12; Rhamnus nummularia Burm. f., Fl. India 61. 1768; Ziziphus rotundifolia Lam., Encycl. 3: 319. 1789.

A tomentose bushy shrub, branches profusely armed, flexuous, divaricate at +/- right angles; young twigs grey-pubescent or tomentose. Stipular spines in pairs, one straight, slender, very sharp, up to 15 mm long, the other smaller, up to 5 mm long, much curved, both spines puberulent. Leaves alternate, distichous; petiole ca. 2 mm long, tomentose; leaf lamina 1-2.5 cm x 0.8-2 cm, elliptic to orbicular, dark green and more or less densely pubescent above, velvety-tomentose beneath, margin entire or serrate, apex obtuse, round or truncate, sometimes mucronate or apiculate, base round to subcordate, strongly 3-nerved, lateral nerves prominent. Flowers in compact, very short axillary cymes. Flowers 4-5 mm across, greenish- yellow, actinomorphic, bisexual, 5-merous, hypogynous. Flower structure similar to that of Z. mauritiana. Drupes 8-12 mm x 8-12 mm, usually globose, red or black when ripe, 2-celled, 2-seeded.

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