Erect shrub to 1 m high, predominantly dioecious. Branches slender, often straight and rigid. Leaves elliptic to broadly elliptic, entire, with thin blueish scaly covering above and below; lamina 5–20 mm long; petiole 1–3 mm long. Male flowers in small disjunct glomerules c. 2 mm diam. forming slender panicles. Female flowers in disjunct clusters arranged in slender panicles. Fruiting bracteoles sessile or on a slender stipe to 3 mm long; valves thin, appressed, semicircular or slightly cordate, to 8 mm long and 12 mm wide, denticulate, united into a very small tube at base otherwise free; smooth or sometimes with 2 small antler-shaped appendages on each side near base. Seed with lateral, erect radicle.
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