Shrub, 0.2-1.0 m high; ericoid, virgate, branched; branches glabrous, rarely puberulous, sometimes arched. Leaves petiolate, trifoliolate; leaflets straight or curved, subcoriaceous to rigidly coriaceous, greyish green, glabrous to pubescent above, white below, acicular or widely linear to narrowly oblanceolate, margins entire, revolute, sometimes pauciserrate in upper half. Inflorescence axillary and terminal panicles, glabrous to pubescent; males ± 60 mm long, females reduced with few flowers, exposed. Flowering time May-Oct. Fruit a drupe, oblate, obloid to ellipsoid, fulvous, villous-tomentose to ferruginous glabrous.
A shrub 2-4 feet high, the branches and branchlets virgate. Leaves nearly sessile or on a petiole 2-3 lines long. Leaflets straight or incurved, 1-2 inches long, 0.5-1 line wide, the terminal somewhat longer. Axillary panicles short, the terminal ones mostly longer; peduncles slender, patent, the uppermost pedicels about 1 line or as long as the flowers. Petals oblong, twice as long as the calyx. Drupe the size of a pea, pubescent or sub-glabrous.
Dioecious, dwarf, evergreen shrub to 1 m. Leaves trifoliolate, leaflets sessile, linear, discolorous, occasionally toothed. Flowers cream-coloured. Drupes ellipsoid, mostly hairy.