Herbs, branching from base, mainly 1-3 dm. Stems often suffused with red-purple, terete, sparingly farinose when young. Leaves mainly alternate, numerous; petiole 2-12(-16) mm; blade cordate-ovate to orbicular, subreniform, cordate, or deltoid, (5-)8-20(-25) mm and about as wide or wider, base truncate to cordate (or attenuate when young), apex rounded to obtuse or acute. Staminate flowers in loose, deciduous, terminal panicles overtopping foliage, rachis and branches filiform, glomerules often beadlike in alternate position along rachis, perianth 5-lobed. Pistillate flowers axillary. Fruiting bracteoles on stipes 2-6 mm, samaralike, suborbicular, oblong or cordate in outline, winged, compressed, 6-16 mm wide, margins 2-4 times as wide as body, wings undulate or entire, surfaces smooth. Seeds white, 3 mm wide, dull.
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