Spreading to rounded herb to 30 cm high, monoecious. Leaves sessile, elliptic, c. 10 mm long, entire or sinuate, cuneate to rounded or truncate at base, scurfy tomentose on both surfaces. Flowers in axillary clusters. Fruiting bracteoles stipitate, compressed, broadly rhomboid to broadly deltoid, united in lower half, reticulate and herbaceous towards apex, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, often with small inflated or foliaceous tubercles on one face near base; valves equal or almost so, slightly dentate to entire; pedicel c. 1 mm long, often thickened at maturity. Seed circular; radicle lateral.
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