Spindly shrub to 1.5 m, usually shortly setose, sometimes almost glabrous. Branchlets striate. Leaves bract-like, ovate, acute or obtuse, 0.5-1.5 mm long, dark brown, caducous. Pedicel and hypanthium thick, together 0.5-1 mm long. Calyx 0.1-0.2 mm long, slightly undulate, setose at least on margin. Corolla 2-3 mm long, shortly setose outside, densely hirsute inside about middle. Stamens 1-1.5 mm long; staminodes linear to filiform, entire or emarginate, hirsute at base. Style c. 1 mm long, sparsely papillose. Drupe ellipsoidal, 5-7 mm long, or sometimes spherical, 3.5 mm diam., sparsely to densely pubescent.
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