Compact shrub, scrambling or prostrate with shoots to 0.5 m high. Young stems minutely puberulous. Leaves opposite, decussate, somewhat crowded, not fetid when bruised; lamina broadly lanceolate to elliptic, 0.7–1.3 cm long, 0.3–0.6 cm wide, basally rounded-obtuse, slightly thickened and sometimes slightly recurved on margins, acute or sometimes slightly acuminate, coriaceous, mid-green above, whitish green below; venation reticulate below; primary veins not strongly differentiated, 4 or 5 on each side of midrib, without domatia; petiole 1–2 mm long, glabrous; stipules 3–5 mm long, with rigid, usually persistent acumen 2–3 mm long. Male and female flowers solitary, crowded in leaf axils, males to 9 mm long, female to 6 mm long. Calyx lobes unequal, to 0.5 mm long. Corolla lobes 4 mm long, green with purple margins. Filaments 5 mm long, anthers 2.5 mm long. Stigmatic arms 3 mm long. Fruit ovoid, 5–6 mm long, c. 3 mm wide, orange, fleshy.
Grows on ridges off mountains. Remote, exposed, rocky ridges with shaded southerly aspect (Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW) 2007: Appendices p. 135).
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