Shrub to 1.5 m high. Leaves opposite or alternate, linear to orbicular, densely mealy all over with vesicular hairs, leathery or fleshy; lamina c. 1 cm long; petiole c. 5 mm long. Inflorescence pyramidal or spike-like. Perianth c. 1.5 mm diam., densely mealy. Male flower: disc cup-shaped, woolly within. Female flowers, if terminal with short membranous staminodes and woolly disc, if lateral without staminodes and with glabrous disc. Berry c. 3.5 mm diam., exceeding perianth which is red within. Seed c. 1.3 mm diam. with faint radial markings.
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