Plants forming systemic witches' brooms. Stems yellowish green, olive green, orange-brown, or maroon; secondary branching fanlike, branches 2(–8) cm, third internode 2–6 × 1 mm, dominant shoot 1–1.5 mm diam. at base. Staminate pedicels present. Staminate flowers radially symmetric, subglobose in bud, 2.3 mm diam.; petals (2–)3(–4), reddish or purple. Berries proximally olive green to purplish, distally yellow, brownish orange, or maroon, 3.5–4.5 × 1.5–2 mm. Seeds ellipsoid, 2.4 × 1.1 mm, endosperm bright green. 2n = 28.
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