Erect perennial branching near base, c. 30 cm high, monoecious. Leaves rhomboid or circular and c. 10 mm long to narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate and c. 40 mm long, sinuate to entire, scaly tomentose on both surfaces; petiole l/3 length of lamina. Male flowers in glomerules c. 5 mm diam., in the upper leaf axils or forming slender interrupted spikes. Female flowers in axillary glomerules. Fruiting bracteoles united (except at apex where closely appressed) to form a hard cylindrical tube 1.5–3 mm long, passing into a slender or thick stipe from half as long to as long as tube; apex rounded, apiculate, with a pair of lateral erect or spreading horn-like lobes or these reduced to small teeth; appendages terminal, flat, spreading, fan-shaped, 1–3 mm long, crenulate or lobed or divided into two. Seed ellipsoid, erect with erect radicle.
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