Leaves with a petiole 1 mm long; stipules to 1.5 mm long, linear; lamina to 30(50) × 3(3.5) mm, linear, apiculate at the apex, obliquely rounded at the base, entire on the margin.
Female flower: ovary pedicellate; styles c. 1.5 mm long, joined at the base, bifid to halfway with much thickened clavate apices.
Seeds 1.5 × 0.8 mm, oblong-conical, with 3 or 4 pronounced transverse ridges, pinkish-grey.
Capsule exserted on a reflexed pedicel to 3 mm long, 1.8 × 2 mm, deeply 3-lobed.
Glabrous annual herb, erect to 50 cm high, laxly branched.
Male flowers: bracteoles laciniate; stamens 2.5 mm long.