Shrub or tree 0.3– 15 m high, trunk up to 15 cm in diameter with brittle wood; much branched; bark dark brown; branchlets pubescent with minute simple hairs to 0.4 mm long. Leaves in whorls of 3, erect, porrect or spreading, fleshy, narrowly ovate or linear, 1.2– 4.8 mm long, 0.3– 0.9 mm wide, apex obtuse, sulcate beneath, often shiny with resinous exudate, glabrous but for the margins which have minute hairs and/or glands when young; petiole 0.3– 0.7 mm long, glabrous. Flowers 3– 9 in fascicles or umbels at branch apices; pedicel pink, 1.2– 4 mm long, glabrous or with very few hairs near base. Calyx (apparent calyx; all three lobes are really recaulescent bract + bracteoles) 0.6– 1.2 mm long, connate to 1/4 or 1/2, glabrous, three lobes ovate, 0.3– 0.7 mm wide, acute, glabrous or minutely ciliolate, one free (the bract), longer and wider at base, 1– 2.5 mm long, 0.4– 0.6 mm wide, sometimes with green apex. Corolla reddish or pink to greenish white, 3-merous, shortly campanulate, 1.2– 1.9 mm long, 1.3– 1.9 mm in diameter, widest at mouth, glabrous, lobes 0.4– 0.7 mm long, rounded, glabrous. Anthers red, 6– 7, 0.9– 1 mm long, the tips usually slightly exserted. Ovary 3– locular; style 0.4– 2 mm long, glabrous, stigma crimson, flat and peltate, circular, 0.2– 0.7 mm long, 0.6– 1.3 mm diameter. Fruit loculicidal, 1– 1.8 mm long, glabrous.
