Rounded perennial herb c. 20 cm high, monoecious. Leaves thin, narrowly obovate to narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowly cuneate at base, 20–30 mm long, entire, scalloped or coarsely toothed towards apex, covered with a grey scaly sheen on both surfaces. Male flowers in glomerules c. 2 mm diam. forming short interrupted spikes or panicles. Female flowers in axillary clusters. Fruiting bracteoles thin, reniform, c. 6 mm high, 10 mm wide, entire, free to the very short deltoid tube, with a swollen reniform appendage c. 5 mm wide, attached at base of each bracteole; stipe short, cylindrical to narrowly obconic, 2–4 mm long. Seed with erect radicle.
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