Shrubs up to 1 m tall, glabrous except for pubescent ovary and fruits; stem terete, brownish; branches brownish; branchlets usually grouped in upper part of branches, delicate, 6-20(-30) cm, with longitudinal stripes. Leaves distichous, along branchlets arranged into 15-30 pairs; stipules lanceolate; petiole 5-10 mm; leaf blade elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 8-15 × 3-7 mm, papery or thinly papery, base ± oblique, margin revolute when dry, apex acute; lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs, delicate. Inflorescence an axillary fascicle, 1-to several flowered. Male flowers 2-3 mm in diam.; pedicels 4-6 mm; sepals 4, ovate-triangular, 1-1.5 × 0.6-1 mm, purple, margin fimbriate or erose; disk slightly fleshy, unlobed, margin thickened, crenate; stamens 4. Female flowers 3-4.5 mm in diam.; pedicels 6-12 mm; sepals 6; ovary oblate, ca. 1 × 1.5 mm, 3-celled, densely curved or rugose-undulate pubescent; styles 3, bifid at apex. Capsules oblate, ca. 5 × 7 mm, 3-loculed, densely curved pubescent. Seeds reniform-triangular, 2-2.5 × 1.25-1.75 mm, tawnyish. Fl. Apr-Aug, fr. Jul-Oct.
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