Andromonoecious or gynomonoecious spreading shrub to 1.5 m high. Leaves simple, sessile, oblanceolate to obovate, entire or unevenly serrate, attenuate at base, 1.4–3 cm long, 0.5–0.9 cm wide, sparsely pubescent or glabrous, truncate or irregularly dentate at apex. Flowers in terminal panicles; pedicels 6.5–11.5 mm long. Sepals 4 or 5, lanceolate to ovate, 1.6–2.4 mm long, persistent. Stamens 4 or 5. Ovary pubescent on dorsal face of each carpel. Capsule 3-winged, transversely elliptic in lateral view, 11.5–18.5 mm long, 13.5–18 mm wide, sparsely pubescent or glabrous; wings 3.5–5.5 mm wide, membranous; dehiscence septifragal.