Dioecious spreading shrub to 2.5 m high. Leaves simple, sessile, oblanceolate to obovate, rarely narrowly elliptic, acute or mucronate, entire, revolute, attenuate at base, 1.4–3 cm long, rarely to 5.6 cm, 0.3–1 cm wide, glabrous. Flowers in 3-or 4-flowered terminal cymes; pedicels 1.5–3 mm long. Sepals 4, ovate, 2–3.5 mm long, caducous. Stamens 8. Ovary sparsely pubescent. Capsule 4-angled, rarely 3-angled, excluding appendages globose or sometimes broadly oblong in lateral view, including appendages 4.5–8 mm long, 5–8.5 mm wide, rarely to 11 mm, glabrous; appendages horn-like, at capsule apex only, 1–3 mm wide, crustaceous; dehiscence septifragal.