Herb, apparently annual; monoecious; stem and branches with appressed-incurved hairs intermixed with spreading ? gland-tipped hairs. Leaves mem-branaceous; petioles 1-3.5 cm long; stipules lanceolate, pubescent, 0.7-1.3 mm long; blades ovate, mostly 2-8 cm long, 1.5-5 cm broad, glabrate except for straight hairs on veins beneath, 5-veined at base, the base rounded to subcordate, the margins rather coarsely serrate (12-20 teeth per side), the apex abruptly short-acuminate. Spikes terminal and axillary; 9 spikes terminal, short-pedunculate (peduncle ca 2-7 mm long), ellipsoidal to cylindrical, ca 1-4 cm long, 1-1.5 cm broad, some-times with a terminal pedunculate ebracteate 9 flower; c spikes axillary, ? interrupted, ca 2-5 mm long, with peduncles 1-5 mm long. Pistillate flowers solitary, sessile; bracts densely hispid with sharp hairs ca 1-2 mm long and shorter mostly gland-tipped hairs, 4.5-7 mm long, with 3-5 lobes, the longer central lobes ca 3-5 mm long, deltoid with a green subulate tip mostly 2-4 mm long; ovary hispidulous and with glandular-capitate hairs, the styles unbranched, 2-7 mm long. Capsules glabrate; seeds ellipsoid or ovoid, smooth (minutely foveolate), grayish, 1-1.1 mm long, the caruncle inconspicuous, ca 0.3-0.4 mm long.
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