Subshrub or dwarf shrub with often thick, woody root, ('bisexual'), ('bisexual')± ('female'), ('female'), less commonly('male') or ('bisexual') ± ('male'), several to many-stemmed, erect and ± cylindrical, rounded or prostrate and ± mat-or cushion-forming. Stems c. (50-)80-300(-500) mm long, unbranched to much branched, not rooting at nodes in prostrate forms. Leaves decussate, pseudoverticillate; blades ascending to spreading, often recurved at least near tip, (2.2-)2.7-10(-12) x (0.5-)0.8-2.5(-3) mm, linear to lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate [occasionally to 20 x 4 mm, (ovate-lanceolate on young flowering plants or new growth], ± membranous to ± tough and thickish, sometimes distinctly discolourous, upper surface often shiny and with large, conspicuous epidermis cells; margins flat to strongly revo-1ute with whitish spreading hairs c. 0.1-0.4 mm long, only minutely scabrid or entirely glabrous; petioles ±0-1 mm long; stipular sheath with a (± broadly) triangular to subulate seta c. (0.5-)0.7-1.5(-2) mm long. Flowers subsessile, in clusters of 2-6 (rarely more) at nodes; corolla 4-merous (very rarely also odd 5-merous ('male')and 3-merous ('female')), greenish yellow to yellowish, sometimes reddish purplish tinged outside, mostly shortly hairy or papillate at least near tip ('male'), ('bisexual'): tube 0.7-1.7(-2) mm long, ± cylindrical to (narrowly) funnel-shaped, lobes 1.4-2.4(-2.9) x 0.3-0.8(-1) mm; anthers (0.7-)1-1.8(-2.1) mm long;('bisexual'): stigmas often shorter than in('female'), ('female'): tube 0.2-0.5 mm long, lobes 0.2-0.8 x 0.1-0.3 mm; style ±0-0.6 mm long, stigmas 2, 2-8.1 mm long, whitish grey, greyish or(seldom)purplish; ovary c. 0.3-0.7 x 0.3-0.5 mm, often with 4 ± indistinct calyx lobes. Fruit reddish brown, shiny; mericarps (1.5-)1.7-2.4 x 0.9-1.3(-1.5) mm, elliptic to obovate, glabrous, ± sparsely covered with very short whitish hairs or distinctly papillate, occasionally with 51 mm distinct calyx lobes to 0.2 x 0.2 mm.
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Perennial, dwarf shrub, up to 0.3 m high; younger parts of stems with short, whitish hairs. Leaves decussate, lanceolate, ± distinctly discolorous, margins revolute, ciliate; petioles ± 1 mm long; stipules up to 2 mm long. Flowers axillary, clusters at nodes, yellowish. Bisexual and male flowers: tube 0.7-2.0 mm long; anthers ± 2.1 mm long; stigma shorter than female flower. Female flowers: tube ± 0.5 mm long, lobed; style up to 0.6 mm long; stigma ± 8.1 mm long, purplish. Ovary often with 4 ± distinct calyx lobes, ± 0.7 x 0.5 mm. Flowering time July-Jan. Fruit shiny, mericarps ± 2.4 x 1.5 mm, elliptic to obovate, glabrous, distinctly papillate or shortly hairy.
Rounded or sprawling subshrub to 50 cm. Leaves decussate, linear to lanceolate, often recurved above, margins ciliate. Flowers in axillary clusters, yellowish.
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