Leafless, dioecious, aerial, hemiparasitic shrub, 0.5-1.0 m high; internodes of distal branches strongly flattened, minutely ribbed. Staminate flowers mostly in triads (sometimes dyads), sessile, mostly solitary at nodes of younger branches. Pistillate flowers solitary in a bilobed bracteal cup, sessile at nodes of younger branches. Flowering time June, July. Fruit a shortly stalked, ovoid-ellipsoid berry, dull orange, strongly warty only on distal half at maturity.