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Male flowers: pedicels 1.5–2 mm long; buds constricted; sepals 6, 3 × 1 mm, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, greenish, whitish or pink-tinged; disk glands 6, c. 0.3 mm in diameter, ± contiguous, flat, closely appressed to the sepals, truncate, minutely verruculose; stamens 3, filaments connate into a stout column 2 mm high, anthers 1 mm long, sessile, ± vertically held, ellipsoid, longitudinally dehiscent.
Leaf blades 5–15 × 2–7 mm, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, subacute or acute, rounded at the base, margins sometimes slightly thickened, thinly coriaceous, somewhat glaucous, often with narrow longitudinal folds when dried; lateral nerves in 4–7 pairs, often inconspicuous.
An erect, usually tufted perennial herb up to 15 cm tall, sometimes a suffrutex up to 50 cm tall, glabrous, dioecious; stems several arising at intervals from a woody rhizome.
Scale leaves c. 1 mm long, linear-lanceolate; stipules up to 2 mm long, triangular-lanceolate, scarious, fimbriate-denticulate, auriculate, reddish-brown.
Seeds 2–2.2 × 1.8 × 1.5 mm, segmentiform, pale brown, faintly 18–20-lineate on the dorsal facet and even more faintly 12-arced on each ventral facet.
Foliage leaves spirally disposed or subdistichous; petioles 0.25 mm long or leaves subsessile; stipules as for those of the scale leaves.
Fruit 2.5 × 4.5 mm, somewhat depressed-subglobose, smooth, greenish or reddish-tinged.
Lead shoots mostly leafy; lateral shoots up to 10 cm long, vertically disposed.
