Gymnosporia arbutifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae.

It is a thorny shrub or tree native to eastern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.

[2] It grows in the mountains of eastern Africa, from the Ethiopian Highlands to the Albertine Rift, and to the southeastern Arabian Peninsula, from 1350 to 2080 meters elevation.

[2] Two subspecies are accepted: