Erect shrub to c. 2 m high, more or less glabrous; branches sometimes pubescent. Leaves oblong or narrow-oblanceolate to oblanceolate, mostly 8–20 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, mucronate, margins flat, glabrous; petiole c. 1 mm long. Male flowers on peduncles c. 8 mm long; female flowers subsessile but peduncles elongating to c. 5 mm in fruit. Male sepals ovate, 1–3 mm long; stamens 6 or 9; female sepals lanceolate-ovate 3–5 mm long; styles persistent. Capsule ovoid to globose, 6–7 mm long, c. 6 mm wide, with 3 divergent lobes at apex; seeds usually 3, obloid, c. 4 mm long, reddish-brown. Flowers mostly Oct.–Feb.