Plants forming nonsystemic witches' brooms; staminate and pistillate plants dimorphic: staminate taller with open divaricate branching, pistillate shorter with dense branching. Stems olive green, greenish brown, greenish yellow, or orange; secondary branching fanlike, branches 8–15(–25) cm, third internode 5–18 × 2–4.5 mm, dominant shoot 2.5–8 mm diam. at base. Staminate pedicels absent. Staminate flowers slightly asymmetric, (proximal petal deflexed at anthesis), lenticular in bud, 2.5–4 mm diam.; petals 3, same color as stem abaxially, tawny reddish brown adaxially. Berries proximally olive green and conspicuously glaucous with bluish hue, distally greenish or yellowish brown, 4–5 × 2–3 mm. Seeds pyriform to ellipsoid, 3–4 × 2–3 mm, endosperm dark olive green. 2n = 28.
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