Dioecious or rarely polygamo-dioecious prostrate shrub to 1 m diam. Leaves simple, sessile, oblanceolate to obovate, rarely linear, acute, sometimes mucronate, attenuate at base, 1–2.5 cm long, rarely to 4 cm, 0.2–0.8 cm wide, glabrous or puberulent on margin and midrib; margin revolute, entire or with 1 or 2 teeth, rarely 3 or 4, usually near apex. Flowers solitary; pedicel 5–22 mm long. Sepals 4, rarely 5, ovate, 2.3–5 mm long, caducous. Stamens 8, rarely 9. Ovary glabrous or puberulent. Capsule 4-angled, rarely 3-or 5-angled, broadly obovoid or rarely oblong in lateral view, 4–8.5 mm long, 4.5–8 mm wide, glabrous; appendages sometimes absent or lobe-like, at capsule apex, 0.5–1 mm wide, crustaceous; dehiscence septifragal.
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