A shrub c. 1 m tall. Branchlets slender, striate when dried. Leaves linear-terete, rather crowded, 11–35 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, acute, sometimes uncinate; stipules swollen, oblique, c. 0.3 mm long, brown or golden. Flowers solitary, axillary. Male flowers: pedicels c. 1 mm long, spreading; calyx 1 mm long, shallowly lobed, the lobes broad, obtuse; stamens 12–14 in 1 whorl, shortly and obtusely apiculate; disc convex. Female flowers: pedicels c. 1 mm long, spreading to recurved; calyx 0.5 mm long, divided to ½ into triangular, acute lobes; carpels 5–7; stigmas narrow, flattened, united at base, 1 mm long, soon curling. Fruit spherical; carpels semi-circular, narrowed towards margin; 3 mm long, the faces reticulate. Seed obovate, c. 1 mm long, rugose, red-brown, attached at base; aril small.
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