Perennial, dwarf shrub or herb, 0.1-0.9 m high; stems stout, copiously branched; rootstock woody; branches virgate, striate, pubescent to copiously patently setulose. Leaves membranous, many, shortly petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, lowest usually obtuse, uppermost acute, base rounded, margins sharply coarsely serrulate; petioles pubescent or setulose; stipules setulose, lanceolate, persistent. Male spikes axillary, solitary, peduncled; spikes cylindric; bracts lanceolate, puberulous or pubescent. Female spikes terminal, solitary, sessile; bracts subsessile, leafy, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Female flowers sepals 3, ovate, acute, glandular; ovary distinctly 3-lobed, pubescent and glandular in upper half; styles 3, united in lower third. Flowering time Oct.-Dec. Seeds subglobose.
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Herb, up to 500 mm tall. Leaves with sessile or some stipitate glands, ovate to narrowly ovate, up to 70 x 40 mm, sharply serrate-dentate. Styles free, red. Flowers red.
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