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Leaf blades 3–10 × 2–6 mm, ovate-suborbicular to elliptic-obovate, obtuse, rounded, truncate or sometimes retuse or mucronulate, rounded-cuneate to shallowly cordate at the base, margins sometimes slightly revolute and reddish-tinged, membranaceous to chartaceous, pale green; midrib sometimes meandering, lateral nerves in 4–8 pairs, often unequal, meandering and irregularly branching and anastomosing, usually not prominent above, prominent and somewhat thickened beneath.
Male flowers in 2–4-flowered bracteate axillary cymules; bracts resembling the stipules; pedicels 1.2–1.5 mm long, broadening at the apex; sepals 5, 1.5–2 × 1.2–1.5 mm, ovate-suborbicular, concave, rounded, creamy-white; disk glands 5, free, 0.3 mm across, lobulate, ± flat; stamens 3, filaments connate into a column c. 1 mm high; anthers 0.4 mm across, strongly 2-lobed, free, horizontally held, minutely granulate, laterally dehiscent.
Seeds 1.5 × 1.2 × 1 mm, segmentiform, greyish-brown, ± smooth or with c. 5–6 indistinct longitudinal lines on the dorsal facet, and c. 3–4 imperceptible concentric arcs on each ventral facet, with innumerable transverse refringent striae between them.
An erect, procumbent or prostrate node-rooting mat-forming woody perennial herb, or subshrub up to 2 m tall, but usually much less, glabrous, dioecious or rarely monoecious; stems red, fleshy, arising from a horizontal woody root system.
Fruit 2 × 3 mm, depressed-subglobose, smooth, yellowish-green, ochreous-olivaceous when dried, partially enveloped by the persistent sepals.
Scale leaves 1.5–2 mm long, linear-subulate; stipules 2.5 × 0.5–0.7 mm, lanceolate, slightly auriculate, dark reddish-brown.
Foliage leaves closely distichous; petioles 0.5 mm long; stipules 2 mm long, linear-lanceolate, pale brown.
Lateral shoots 2–4(6) cm long.
