Small prostrate shrub, rooting at nodes/internodes, branches glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 0.5-2.1 cm, oblong-lanceolate, serrulate to crenulate, usually glabrous, petiole up to 2.5 mm long. Flowers after the leaves. Male catkin few flowered, 7.5-12.7 mm long, filaments free, glabrous. Disk of 2 erect glands, on 2 sides of the stamen. Female catkin similar to the male catkin. Disk surrounding the base of the ovary. Ovary shortly stipitate, glabrous. Style distinct, deeply cleft, stigma bipartite. Capsule 5-6 mm long, ovoid, glabrous.