Perennial with prostrate woody branches. Stems with vertical lines of pubescence alternating at the nodes. Leaves opposite or alternate, narrowly elliptic, 1-3 cm long, 5-9 mm broad, apex acute, base attenuate into a short to long petiole, margin serrate; stipules subulate. Flowers axillary, declinate, very small, c. 2-3 mm long, on thin pedicels up to 1 cm long in fruit. Sepals 2 mm long, curved upwards, pubescent. Petals white, short, the anterior 3 mm, with a broadly obovate, emarginate lamina. Stamens sessile, with an ovate, dark apical appendage. Ovary globose, with about 9 ovules; style short, oblique, stigma obtriangular. Capsule ovoid, 3 mm in diam.; seed globose-ovoid, c. 2 mm in diam., black when mature, smooth, shiny, with a white spongy aril, hygroscopic.
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