Open, spreading, erect or prostrate shrub to 0.7 m high. Young branchlets terete, sparsely to moderately hairy; hairs stellate. Leaves narrowly ovate to broadly ovate, narrowly elliptic or triangular, 3–17 mm long, 1.2–5 mm wide; apex obtuse or acute; abaxial surface densely hairy with sessile and stipitate stellate hairs up to 0.4 mm across. Flowers axillary, pedicellate, males in 2-or 3-flowered fascicles or solitary, females solitary; pedicels 1–3.5 (–7) mm long (♂, ♀), glabrous or with a few stellate hairs. Male flowers: receptacle c. 1 mm across, stellate-tomentose; stamens 20–40. Female flowers: calyx lobes suborbicular or broadly ovate, 0.7–1.1 mm long; ovary subglobose, 0.5–0.7 mm long, stellate hairy, (rarely 1) 2-locular; stigma ±discoid. Fruit obliquely or transversely pyriform, 4–6 mm long, glabrous or with scattered stellate hairs; persistent calyx lobes c. one fifth of fruit length.
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