Dioecious spreading shrub to 1 m high. Leaves simple, oblong or rarely oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, glabrous to puberulent, truncate-emarginate or sometimes obtuse or irregularly 2-or 3-toothed, entire, unevenly sinuate or with very small regular teeth or lobes; base attenuate to cuneate; lamina 0.7–1.7 cm long, 0.3–0.5 cm wide; petiole 1–3.5 mm long. Flowers solitary or paired; pedicels 2.5–5 mm long. Sepals 4, ovate to broadly oblong, 1.5–2.5 mm long, caducous. Stamens 8. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 4-winged, broadly to transversely elliptic in lateral view, 10–13 mm long, 9–14 mm wide, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely pubescent; wings 2–4 mm wide, membranous; dehiscence septifragal.
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