Decumbent shrub to 30 cm high, monoecious. Leaves subsessile, narrowly oblong to narrowly ovate, 10–15 mm long, obtuse, entire, with scurfy lepidote sheen on both surfaces. Male flowers in a compact terminal ovoid to globular spike c. 5 mm diam. Female flowers in axillary clusters. Fruiting bracteoles with a short, thick, hard stipe c. 1 mm long; valves free, deltoid, 2.5–4 mm wide, flat but slightly thickened in centre at base, prominently reticulate veined, entire, smooth or with 1 or 2 short acicular appendages on each face. Seed circular; radicle lateral, erect.
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