Plants usually forming localized local infections only, sometimes forming small nonsystemic witches' brooms. Stems olive green, orange, or reddish brown, glaucous; secondary branching fanlike, branches 8(–13) cm, slender, third internode 6–15 × 1–2 mm, dominant shoot 1.5–4 mm diam. at base. Staminate pedicels absent. Staminate flowers radially symmetric, lenticular in bud, 2.5 mm diam.; petals 3, light yellowish green. Berries proximally olive or grayish to bluish green, distally olive green to brown, glaucous, 3.5 × 2 mm. Seeds ellipsoid, 2 × 0.9 mm, endosperm bright green. 2n = 28.
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