Plants usually forming systemic witches' brooms, sometimes nonsystemic witches' brooms in secondary hosts. Stems yellowish to olive green; secondary branching whorled, branches 5–9(–30) cm, third internode 6–23 × 1–2 mm, dominant shoot 1–3 mm diam. at base. Staminate pedicels present. Staminate flowers radially symmetric, subglobose in bud, 2.2 mm diam.; petals 3(–4), same color as stems. Berries proximally olive green, distally yellowish to reddish brown, 3.5–4.5 × 1.5–2.5 mm. Seeds ellipsoid, 2.4 × 1.1 mm, endosperm green. 2n = 28.
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