Erect shrub to 5 m, glabrous; branches sometimes drooping. Stems slightly striate, terete; flowering branchlets 0.7-1.5 mm diam. Leaves appressed to slightly spreading, subulate, 1-1.5 mm long, caducous. Inflorescence a lateral corymb or short raceme; rachis 2-6 mm long, rarely longer; flowers 3-15, almost sessile; bracts ovate, cupped, 0.5-1.0 mm long. Tepals c. 0.5 mm long, green-yellow to orange; apex very slightly incurved. Disc lobed. Drupe ovoid to elongate-ovoid, 3-7 mm long, fleshy.
A medium sized shrub. It grows 2.5-5 m tall and 1.5-3.5 m wide. It is partly parasitic on roots. Branches often are erect but can hang down. The leaves are-.15 cm long and spreading and pointed. The flowering stalk is short and has 3-15 flowers. The flowers are very small and yellow-green or orange. They are almost without stalks. The fruit is 0.8 cm long. They are fleshy.