Dioecious or rarely polygamo-dioecious prostrate shrub to 1.5 m diam. Leaves simple, sessile, angular-obovate to oblanceolate, acute, rarely acuminate, sometimes tridentate, revolute and usually with 1–4 irregular teeth to 2.5 mm long and mostly above middle of leaf, sometimes entire, attenuate at base, 0.8–3 cm long, 0.4–0.85 cm wide, sparsely puberulent or rarely glabrous. Flowers solitary or paired; pedicels 3.5–7.5 mm long. Sepals 4 or 5, rarely to 7, linear-lanceolate, often unequal in size, 2–3 mm long, caducous. Stamens 8–10. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 4-winged, rarely 3-winged, broadly oblong in lateral view with undulate valves, 11–13 mm long, 8–10.5 mm wide, glabrous; wings 0.5 mm wide, crustaceous; dehiscence septifragal.
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