Dioecious spreading shrub to 0.6 m high. Leaves simple, sessile, linear, channelled below, convex above, acute, entire, strongly revolute, attenuate at base, 0.6–1.4 cm long, rarely to 3.5 cm, 0.1–0.2 cm wide, glabrous. Flowers solitary, rarely paired; pedicels 1–1.5 mm long. Sepals 3, ovate, 1.5–3.6 mm long, persistent. Stamens 6. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 3-angled, globose or angular-obovate in lateral view, 5–7 mm long, 5–8 mm wide, glabrous; appendages often absent, or if present lobe-like, at capsule apex, to 0.5 mm wide, crustaceous; dehiscence septifragal.