Dioecious spreading shrub to 0.5 m high. Leaves simple, sessile, linear, rarely narrowly elliptic or obovate, acute, entire or with 1–4 irregular teeth, attenuate at base, 0.3–0.8 cm long, 0.1–0.3 cm wide, puberulent. Flowers solitary; subsessile or with pedicels 0.5 mm long. Sepals 3, rarely 4 or 5, linear, 1.5–2 mm long, caducous. Stamens 6. Ovary glabrous or pubescent. Capsule 3-angled, excluding appendages globose, including appendages 3–5.5 mm long, 4–6 mm wide, glabrous; appendages horn-like, at capsule apex, 1–3 mm wide, crustaceous; dehiscence septifragal.