Stems prostrate to decumbent, white, to 2 dm, usually brittle, glabrous to scaly, grayish scurfy; branches terete. Leaves sometimes opposite, proximalmost usually sessile; blade ovate to cordate, 3-7 mm, margin entire, apex acute, usually densely white scaly. Flowers in axils of opposite, bracteate leaves, pistillate in clusters of 4, these and subtending leaves crowded on branchlets, internodes at anthesis 2 mm. Staminate flowers in small, yellow, axillary glomerules, calyx 4-lobed. Fruiting bracteoles deciduous, ovate (ovate-hastate) or rhombic, 2-3.5 mm, united to near summit, entire or obscurely denticulate, faces tuberculate, mostly white scurfy. Seeds reddish brown, 1-1.5 mm.
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