Robust dwarf shrub, thick-stemmed, to 400 mm tall, often irregularly (diffusely) and divaricately branched (especially if browsed); browsed plants sometimes ± cushion-forming and low; intemodes normally much longer than leaves. Leaves: blades often broad and large, to 14(-20) x 4.0(-4.5) mm, ovate, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, thickish and tough, mostly papillate on lower and/or upper surface and margins, distinctly discolourous, upper surface often very dark; petioles usually c. 0.5-1.0 mm long. Plants mostly 'female', 'male'; ('female' + 'male' ) fairly uncommon. 'male' ('female' + 'male' ): buds c. 3.5-4 mm long; corolla lobes 2.3-3.2 x 0.7-1.2 mm, glabrous. Fruit shiny, glabrous, carpophore c. 0.6-0.7 mm long; mericarps (1.8-)2.2-2.7 x 1.0-1.5 mm.
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