Short-lived perennialc. 50 cm high, monoecious. Leaves thin, petiolate; scurfy to scurfy-tomentoseon both surfaces; lamina broadly ovate to broadly elliptic, 2–4 cm long,acute, acutely lobed, base cuneate; petiole half length of lamina. Flowersmixed in clusters, both axillary and forming short disjunct spikes. Fruitingbracteoles sessile or subsessile appressed, free to base, broadly triangular,c. 5 mm long and wide (to triangular), ± scurfy tomentose; margins prominentlydentate; appendages small, semicircular, inflated, 0.5–1 mm wide, nearbase of each bracteole. Seed circular; radicle erect.
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