Erect rounded perennial herb to 35 cm high, monoecious. Leaves thin, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, flat, c. 10 mm long, entire or slightly sinuate, narrowed at base into a short petiole or sessile, with a scaly pitted indumentum on both surfaces. Flowers in small axillary glomerules in upper axils or forming short interrupted spikes. Fruiting bracteoles sessile or shortly stipitate, campanulate to fan-shaped; tube shortly cylindrical, c. 1 mm long, tuberculate or covered with slender papillae; lobes free, flattened, broadly deltoid to fan-shaped, reticulate, with sinuate margin, to 1.5 mm high and 3.5 mm wide (or reduced to a narrow denticulate rim to the tube); pedicel to 1 mm long, thickened. Seed circular, radicle erect.
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