Annual or short-lived perennial c. 20 cm high, branching from near base, monoecious. Leaves, inflorescence, and young branches covered with white globular to tubular vesicular hairs. Leaves broadly ovate, 5–10 mm long, entire, rounded to cordate at base, sessile or very shortly petiolate, crowded towards branch apices. Flowers in axillary glomerules, containing one male and several female. Fruiting bracteoles cordate to orbicular, c. 4 mm long and wide, spinulose on margin, sessile or almost so; appendages attached near base of each bracteole, similar in shape to valves but half as wide, or absent. Seed with lateral erect radicle.
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