Shrub 50–150 cm high, viscid; branches ascending, slender, glabrous. Leaves oblong, mostly 10–15 mm long, 2–3(–7) mm wide, apex rounded, margins slightly thickened, flat or weakly recurved, glabrous, upper surface glossy green, lower surface paler; petiole 1–3 mm long. Male flowers 1–3 on peduncle 1–4 mm long; bracts linear, to c. 1 mm long, green; female flowers solitary on peduncles to c. 2 mm long, elongating in fruit. Male sepals ovate, 2.5–3 mm long, viscid; female sepals ovate, to c. 2 mm long, yellow-green, imbricate; stigmas 2-lobed, cup-shaped, sessile, persistent in fruit. Capsule ovoid to subglobose, 5.5–7 mm long, on a peduncle 2–5 mm long; seeds usually 2, obloid, c. 4 mm long, light brown with darker mottling. Flowers mostly Sep.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, RobP, MuF, HSF. Also SA, NSW. In Victoria confined to the far north-west where found mostly in dune mallee communities.
