A straggling shrub, sometimes polygamous. Branches slender, greenish yellow when mature. Leaves 1-4 cm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, linear, acute. Flowers yellowish green, in dense terminal and rigid racemes 5-15 cm long. Bract c. 2.5 mm long, oblong. Pedicel 1 mm long, slightly longer in fruit. Bisexual flowers: Sepals 5(-6), ovate, 1 mm long. Petals absent or 2-3, less than 1 mm long, subulate; appendage more or less suborbiculate. Disc fleshy, surrounding the filaments and ovary. Stamens 10-12; filaments 1-2 mm long, fused at the base, deciduous. Female flowers: Petals absent or reduced. Ovary glabrous. Staminodes present. Berry 3-5 mm broad, white. Seeds c. 1.5 mm long, reniform, brown, papillose.