Shrub to 2 m high, thinly viscid on most parts; young branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, linear, 15–55 mm long, 1.3–1.9 mm wide; base obtuse; margin recurved to midrib concealing abaxial surface; apex straight, acute, apiculate; adaxial surface glabrous, ± smooth. Inflorescences on peduncles 1–6 mm long. Male flowers: androecium 2.8–6 mm long; stamens 55–80. Female flowers on pedicels 2.8–4 mm long; calyx lobes linear-ovate or linear-oblong, 1.8–5.5 mm long, glabrous abaxially, with margins entire; ovary glabrous, verrucose. Fruit narrowly ovoid or pyriform, 8.5–12 mm long, glabrous, usually 1-seeded; persistent calyx half the fruit length or less.