Shrub, seemingly dioecious, erect, woody, up to c. 60 cm high. Leaves alternate, 2-5 x 0.4-1 cm long, sessile, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse, entire, narrowed at base, lepidote-farinose, greyish hoary, upper smaller; flowers in a terminal spicate raceme or males in glomerules above. Fruiting bracteoles dentate to subentire, shortly pedicelate, coriaceous, muricate and nerved, c. 5-10 (-12) mm in diameter.