Prostrate to spreading annual or short-lived perennial herb to 20 cm high, monoecious. Branches slender. Leaves thick, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, sessile, 10–20 mm long, incurved, with densely grey, scaly indumentum below, sparsely scurfy above. Male flowers, with 1–2 female, in terminal axillary glomerules. Female flowers in axillary clusters of 2–4. Fruiting bracteoles densely scurfy, sessile, broadly oblong, 1–4 mm long, fused to near apex; lower half bearing numerous prominent, soft, papilliform appendages; upper half smooth, flat, shortly 3-toothed. Seed circular; radicle lateral, erect.
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