Stems prostrate or spreading-ascending to erect, often reddish, terete, 0.7-2(-4) dm, scurfy. Leaves numerous, imbricate, all or mainly alternate, sessile; blade ovate or broadly so, (1-)4-10 mm, base rounded to subcordate, margin entire, apex acute. Flowers solitary or few in axils, staminate 4-merous. Fruiting bracteoles deciduous, rounded-deltoid, compressed, 2-3 mm and as broad or broader, somewhat hastately lobed at base and denticulate or crenulate, acute or acuminate at apex, sides smooth. Seeds reddish brown, 0.8-0.9 mm.
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