Decumbent to erect annual or short lived perennial to 20 cm high, monoecious. Leaves elliptic to broadly elliptic, 10–15 mm long, subsessile, entire to faintly sinuate-dentate, scaly tomentose on both surfaces. Male flowers in small glomerules in distal leaf axils usually mixed with some female flowers. Female flowers in scattered axillary glomerules. Fruiting bracteoles adpressed, flat, c. 5 mm long, prominently reticulate with age, fused in lower 2/3 into a campanulate tube, broadly triangular above; the adaxial limb considerably shorter than the abaxial; appendages paired, inflated, attached along margins of adaxial bracteole; stipe 0.5–1 mm long.
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