Shrub to 2 m high. Leaves linear to spathulate or broadly obovate, thin to leathery; lamina 3–4 cm long, tapering into a slender petiole, sparsely and minutely mealy beneath when young. Inflorescence a pyramidal panicle c. 5 cm long. Flowers spherical, c. 1 mm diam. Tepals glabrous. Male flowers: filaments somewhat pilose at base, united into a saucer-shaped disc. Female flowers: terminal flowers usually sterile with densely pilose linear staminodes; lateral flowers fertile, without staminodes. Berry depressed-spherical, c. 3 mm diam. Seed c. 1.5 mm diam.; testa with faint radial ribbing.
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