Erect shrubs, up to 2 m tall, glabrous throughout; stem gray-brown; branchlets usually clustered at tips of stems, to 16 cm, transversely compressed, slightly quadrangular, adaxially flattened to grooved. Stipules ovate-triangular, ca. 1 mm, brownish red; petiole ca. 1 mm, transversely wrinkled abaxially; leaf blade oblong or elliptic, 6-11 × 2-4 mm, thinly leathery, glossy dark green when fresh, drying gray-green, slightly paler abaxially, base slightly obliquely cuneate to rounded, margin revolute, apex acute with brown-reddish mucro; lateral veins 4-7 pairs, abaxially raised in dried material. Plants monoecious. Inflorescence an axillary fascicle, usually bisexual with 2-4 male flowers and 1 female flower. Male flowers: pedicels 1-2 mm; sepals 6, ovate-lanceolate or obovate, 1-2 mm, yellow-white or white-green, margins membranous; disk glands 6, globose; stamens 3; filaments connate for ca. half length; anthers oblong, ca. 0.2 mm, thecae parallel, longitudinally dehiscent, connectives slightly mucronate. Female flowers: pedicels ca. 2 mm; sepals as in male, ca. 1.2 × 0.8-1 mm, thickened and persistent in fruit; disk annular, thin, shallowly 6-lobed, dark and reflexed in fruit; ovary globose, ca. 1 mm in diam., 3-locular; styles 3, connate at base, bifid at apex, lobes slightly revolute. Capsule globose, ca. 3 mm in diam. Seeds brown, segmentiform, ca. 1.5 mm, initially yellowish buff becoming light brown minutely speckled red. Fl. Jun-Sep, fr. Aug-Nov.
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