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Female flowers axillary, solitary; peduncles 2 mm long; bracts 5 × 8 mm, palmatipartite with lobes linear-lanceolate and acuminate, pubescent without, glabrous within; flower subsessile within the bract; sepals 3, 2 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliate; ovary 2 mm in diameter, 3-lobed, pubescent, hirsute and tuberculate at the apex; styles 4 mm long, free, fimbriate, red.
A densely caespitose perennial herb or suffrutex up to 50 cm tall, from a stout woody rootstock; stems many, simple, densely leafy, pilose or pubescent.
Male racemes up to 5 cm long, axillary, solitary, densely flowered, on peduncles up to 2 cm long; bracts 1.5 mm long, linear-spathulate.
Male flowers: pedicels 1 mm long; buds subglobose, sparingly pubescent, greenish-brown; anthers minute, cream-coloured.
Fruits 3 × 3 mm, 3-lobed, pubescent-pilose, yellowish.
Stipules 1–1.5 mm long, linear, reddish-brown.
Petioles 0.5–2 mm long, or leaves subsessile.
Seeds 2 × 1.5 mm, ovoid, dark brown.
Plants dioecious.
