Small prostrate to erect shrub to 30 cm tall, glabrous. Stems markedly articulate, rigid, striate, semiterete to obtusely angular; flowering branchlets 1-1.5 mm diam. Leaves appressed, triangular, 0.5-1.5 mm long, caducous. Inflorescence variable from an almost sessile cluster to a spike; rachis mostly to 5 (rarely 15) mm long; flowers 1-10; bracts triangular to ovate, 0.5 mm long, caducous. Tepals 4 or 5, 0.5 mm long, white; apex uncinate with adaxial thickening. Disc lobed. Drupe globose, 2-4 mm long, slightly fleshy.
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