Shrub to 2 m, pyramidal, often slightly viscid. Branchlets orange to almost white. Leaves usually spreading, linear-terete, acute, 5–30 mm long, sometimes to 40 mm, soft, bright green; stipules to 0.5 mm long. Male flowers in axillary racemes of 1–3; pedicels 2 mm long; bracteoles to 0.5 mm long; calyx less than 1 mm long, lobed c. ½ way, the lobes broad, acute; stamens 7–10 in 1 whorl; disc small, flat to convex. Female flowers solitary, axillary, rarely in small racemes; pedicels 1–2 mm long; calyx to 1 mm long, divided to ⅓–½, the lobes triangular, acute; carpels 1 or 2; stigmas becoming lateral as fruit develops, 1 mm long, petaloid, creamy-white. Fruiting carpels obovate to semi-circular, oblique, swollen, smooth to slightly rugose, 3–4 mm long. Seed rounded, 2 mm long, prominently rugose, red-brown; aril almost enclosing seed.
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