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Gymnosporia tenuispina
Also called Bell Spikethorn
Gymnosporia tenuispina is a Southern African shrub or small tree of about 2 metres in height belonging to the family Celastraceae.
Native to eastern South Africa, eastern Botswana, and Zimbabwe, it is common on rocky outcrops, dip slopes and bushveld, and armed with slender spines of about 25mm long. Leaves are alternate or densely clustered in tufts, elliptic to almost linear, margins irregularly and finely serrate, apex frequently notched.
Gymnosporia addat · Gymnosporia arbutifolia · Willow Spike Thorn · Camassiwood · Gymnosporia cassinoides · Dhofar Spikethorn · Gymnosporia harenensis · Angle Stem Spikethorn · Forest Maytenus · Gymnosporia pertinax · Maytenus senegalensis · Gymnosporia stylosa
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gymnosporia tenuispina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
