Spreading prostrate to erect perennial herb to 0.3 m high, 1 m wide, monoecious. Leaves thin, subsessile, elliptic to broadly elliptic or obovate, 8–30 mm long, apex obtuse to rounded, margin entire to repand dentate, upper surface glabrescent, lower surface densely scurfy. Male flowers in small glomerules 2–3 mm diam., in distal axils or forming short spikes. Female flowers in axillary clusters. Fruiting bracteoles subsessile, thin, flat, deltoid to cordate, acute or obtuse 4–6 mm long and wide, free to base, entire or sparsely denticulate, reticulate, scurfy. Seed transversely elliptic; radicle ascending.
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