Dioecious spreading, compact shrub to 0.5 m high. Leaves simple, sessile, linear, sometimes terete, obtuse and recurved at apex, revolute, entire or with 1–4 irregular teeth above middle, not constricted at base, 0.2–1 cm long, c. 0.1 cm wide, glabrous or sparsely puberulent. Flowers solitary, subsessile. Sepals 3, ovate, 1.5–2.3 mm long, caducous. Stamens 6. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 3-angled, rarely 4-angled, excluding appendages globose, including appendages 4.5–6 mm long, 5–9 mm wide, glabrous; appendages horn-like, at capsule apex, 1–3 mm wide, crustaceous; dehiscence septifragal.