Plants forming nonsystemic witches' brooms; staminate and pistillate plants not dimorphic. Stems green, yellow, orange, reddish brown, or dark purple; secondary branching fanlike, branches 10–20(–27) cm, third internode 4–16 × 2–4.5 mm, dominant shoot 2–10 mm diam. at base. Staminate pedicels absent. Staminate flowers radially symmetric, lenticular in bud, 2.5–3 mm diam.; petals 3–4(–6), green, greenish yellow, or light pink, sometimes differing abaxially and adaxially. Berries proximally olive green, distally brown, 4.5–5.5 × 2–3 mm. Seeds pyriform to ellipsoid, 2.8 × 1.8 mm, endosperm green or green and maroon. 2n = 28.
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