Dioecious or rarely polygamo-dioecious spreading shrub to 1.5 m high. Leaves simple, sessile, obovate, sometimes oblanceolate or oblong, obtuse or rounded, entire, cuneate at base, 0.8–3.5 cm long, 0.3–1.5 cm wide, glabrous. Flowers paired or 3 together, rarely in a few-flowered terminal cyme; pedicels 1.5–2.6 mm long. Sepals 5, rarely 4, linear or linear-lanceolate, 1.4–3 mm long, caducous. Stamens 8, rarely as few as 5. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 3-, rarely 4-angled, oblong or obovate in lateral view, 6.5–8.5 mm long, 5–8.5 mm wide, glabrous; wings 0.5–1 mm wide, sometimes above the middle of capsule only, coriaceous; dehiscence septicidal.
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