Dioecious or rarely polygamo-dioecious spreading shrub to 0.6 m high. Leaves simple, subsessile, linear, oblong or narrowly elliptic, acute or obtuse, revolute, entire or irregularly sinuolate or repand, attenuate at base, 0.8–1.4 cm long, 0.1–0.3 cm wide, glabrous. Flowers solitary; pedicel 1–2.6 mm long. Sepals 3 or 4, ovate, 1.8–3.3 mm long, persistent. Stamens 6–8. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 3-or 4-angled, subglobose or broadly obovate in lateral view, 4–5 mm long, 5–5.5 mm wide, glabrous; appendages often absent, or lobe-like, to 0.5 mm wide, crustaceous; dehiscence septifragal.
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