Erect shrub to 0.6 m, glabrous. Stems weak, slightly striate; flowering branchlets c. 0.5 mm diam. Leaves spreading, incurved, ovate to linear, flat to triquetrous, 5-10 mm long, articulate at base, persistent. Flowers solitary; fertile branches erect to spreading; bracts either ovate, incurved, flat adaxially, ridged abaxially and 1-2 mm long, or lanceolate, straight, flat, slightly ridged abaxially and 2-3 mm long; pedicel c. 0.25 mm long. Tepals c. 0.5 mm long, golden brown; apex very slightly hooded. Disc lobed. Drupe globose, c. 2 mm long, dry.