Shrub to 1.5 m, often bushy, pale green. Branchlets often curved to pendulous, somewhat angular. Leaves broadly ovate-elliptic, flat, retuse to rounded, obtusely mucronate, mostly 5-15 mm long and 4-8 mm wide, sessile or almost so, markedly distichous, soft when fresh. Pedicel and hypanthium together 2 mm long. Calyx 0.3-0.5 mm long, slightly undulate. Corolla 3-4 mm long. Stamens 1 mm long; staminodes filiform, 1 mm long, simple, glabrous. Style c. 1 mm long. Drupe ovoid to obpyriform, 3-5 mm long, the calyx persistent as an erect crown; style persistent. Seed spherical, c. 3 mm diam.
Sometimes occurs a short distance inland in deep sand, rarely on quartzite or granite, in shrubland.
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