Intricately branched shrub to 1 m high, dioecious. Leaves ovate-deltoid, sinuate-dentate, truncate or slightly cuneate at base, with thin scaly covering on both surfaces; lamina 15–20 mm long; petiole 2–3 mm long. Male flowers in disjunct or continuous glomerules c. 5 mm wide forming slender spikes or panicles. Female flowers in dense disjunct glomerules arranged in open leafy panicles. Fruiting bracteoles subsessile, orbicular to obtusely deltoid, c. 10 mm long and wide; valves smooth, entire or bluntly denticulate, free to near base, hard, ultimately thickened and convex except for papery reflexed margin. Seed with lateral, erect radicle.
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