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Female flowers solitary or in pairs in the axils of the upper leaves, sessile; bracts c. 4–5 × 6 mm when mature, palmatifid, c. 20-fid to halfway, the segments 1.5–3 mm long, linear-lanceolate to subulate, alternately long and short, pubescent, eglandular, 1-flowered.
Female flowers: sepals oblong, minute, acute, pubescent; ovary c. 1 mm in diameter, globose, densely fulvous-tomentose; styles 3–8 mm long, free, pectinately lacinulate, minutely puberulous, red.
Male racemes up to 2 cm long, axillary, solitary, sometimes with a female flower at the base; bracts resembling the stipules.
A perennial herb up to c. 30 cm tall, arising from a woody rootstock; stems several, simple, puberulous to pubescent.
Male flowers: pedicels less than 0.5 mm long; buds subglobose, puberulous, purplish-tinged; anthers minute.
Petiole not more than 2 mm long, or leaves sessile.
Seeds 2 × 1.5 mm, ovoid, smooth, dark brown.
Plants dioecious or sometimes monoecious.
Fruits 4 × 4 mm, subglobose, pubescent.
Stipules 3 mm long, linear.
