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Perennial herb, up to 450 mm high; densely, patently setulose; dioecious, sometimes monoecious. Stems procumbent or semi-erect, sparsely branched. Leaves sessile; blade ovate to narrowly ovate, 36-60 x 18-30 mm, apex acute or obtuse, base cuneate or rounded, margin serrate. Flowers: male flowers axillary, solitary; female spikes terminal, solitary; bracts subsessile, leafy, broadly ovate, apex subacute or obtuse, base cuneate, coarsely serrate, terminal tooth exceeding 2-4 lateral ones, setulose on margins, glandular; styles united in lower third, spirally twisted and markedly laciniate, red; Sep.-Jan.
A herb. It grows 15-45 cm tall. The stems are stout and hairy. They come from a woody rootstock. The leaves are alternate and oval to sword shaped. They are hairy and there are coarse teeth along the edge. The male and female flowers are separate in spikes. The male ones are in the axils of leaves and the female ones are at the end of branches. Male spikes have many flowers and female spikes occur singly. The flowers are 3 mm long and white. The fruit is a 3 chambered. 3-lobed capsules. The seeds are a flattened round shape.
Semi-erect herb, up to 150 mm tall. Leaves sessile, serrate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate. Terminal lobe of upper female bracts not much longer than broad nor much longer than other lobes. Styles free, red, longer than bracts. Flowers red.
Dioecious perennial from woody caudex, to 80 cm. Leaves subsessile, coarsely hairy, ovate to elliptic, toothed. Male flowers in pedunculate, axillary spikes, females in terminal, bracteate clusters, with long red stigmas.
