Shrubs 1-3 m tall, densely branched, glabrous; branchlets ± distinctly angular when young, greenish, smooth, later subterete, yellow-brownish, not conspicuously lenticellate; ultimate branchlets not spine-tipped. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, ca. 1 mm, persistent; petiole 2-8 mm; leaf blade elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rarely obovate, 1.5-8 × 1-3 cm, papery, base obtuse to cuneate, margin entire or sometimes irregularly serrate or undulate-toothed, apex acute to obtuse, greenish abaxially; lateral veins 5-8 pairs, raised on both surfaces, reticulate veins slightly prominent. Plants dioecious. Inflorescences axillary, cymose. Male flowers 3-18-clustered; pedicels 2.5-5.5 mm; sepals usually 5, elliptic, ovate, or rotund, 1-1.5 × 0.5-1.5 mm, margins entire or obscurely serrulate; disk glands 5; stamens 5; filaments 1-2.2 mm; anthers ovate, 0.5-1 mm; rudimentary ovary terete, 0.6-4 mm high, apex 2-or 3-lobed. Female flowers: pedicels 2-15 mm; sepals 5, elliptic to ovate, 1-1.5 mm, subentire, 1-veined and carinate on back; disk patelliform, entire or subentire; ovary ovoid, (2 or)3-locular; styles 1-1.8 mm, free or connate at base, erect or recurved. Fruiting pedicels 2-15 mm; sepals persistent; capsule triquetrous-oblate, 2-5 mm in diam., reddish brown when ripe, prominently reticulate veined, 3-lobed. Seeds plano-convex, ca. 3 mm, minutely granular-verruculose. Fl. Mar-Aug, fr. Jun-Nov.
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A shrub. It grows 1-3 m tall. It has many branches and the branches are angular when young. The flowers are in the axils of leaves. Male flowers are in clusters of 3-18. The fruit are 3 sided capsules 2-5 mm across. They are reddish-brown when ripe.
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