Erect shrub to 1 m, glabrous. Stems striate, angular; flowering branchlets 0.5-1 mm diam., pendulous. Leaves spreading to horizontal, sometimes recurved at apex, triangular, 0.5-4 mm long, (juveniles to 1 cm long), without articulation, persistent; older leaves semi-terete, acute, the apices recurved. Flowers solitary; bracts triangular, decurrent, c. 0.75 mm long; pedicel c. 0.5 mm long. Tepals up to 0.5 mm long, yellow or orange; apex slightly hooded to uncinate with adaxial thickening. Disc lobed. Drupe globose, 1.5-3 mm long, dry.