Decumbent to erect rounded herb to 30 cm high, monoecious. Leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, scurfy tomentose on both surfaces, ovate to elliptic, 7–15 mm long, thin, obtuse, entire, cuneate to truncate at base. Flowers in axillary glomerules. Fruiting bracteoles like a duck’s foot; stipe thick, 1–1.5 mm long; tube deltoid, flattened, united in lower half, shortly 3-toothed at apex, c. 2 mm long, prominently nerved and reticulate, smooth or with tubercles on one bracteole towards base. Seed circular; radicle lateral.
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