Herbs, monoecious, (0.5-)1-4.5 dm. Leaves on petioles 0.3-1.5(-2) cm proximally, becoming sessile distally, blade inconspicuously 3-veined, deltoid-ovate to orbicular-ovate or cordate-ovate, 5-20(-30) mm and as wide, base broadly cuneate to subcordate, apex acute to shortly acuminate, scurfy. Flowers of both sexes intermixed in axillary glomerules. Staminate flowers 5-merous. Fruiting bracteoles ovate-oblong or oval to obovate, 1.5-2.5 × 1-2.5 mm, subentire to tridentate apically, median tooth largest, lateral lobes often rounded and sometimes constricted basally, giving an overall violin shape, sometimes slenderly appendaged marginally and bicristate on at least 1 face, but typically unappendaged on faces. Seeds yellow-brown, 0.9-1.2 mm.
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