Evergreen shrub or subshrub, hermaphrodite, up to 2 m in height, very ramose, upright or \u00b1 prostrate. Trunk and main branches with greyish bark that flakes off into scales. Branchlets usually opposite, whitish, sometimes reddish, with very few leaves, glabrous. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate, sessile (4-25 \u00d7 0.5-3 mm), subcylindrical, short or very elongated, obtuse to slightly acute, \u00b1 apiculate, fleshy, green, reddish or glaucescent, usually slightly pruinose; glabrous, but with villous axil. Flowers always hermaphrodite, usually solitary at the axil of small floral leaves, sometimes in small groups of 2 to 3. In loose inflorescences, spiciform, arranged in panicles. Perianth with 5 membranous parts and 5 stamens. Fruit an achene enclosed by the 5 perianth parts, winged on the dorsal side. Wings whitish, greenish-yellow, pinkish or purple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-11991","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n