Rounded annual or short-lived perennial to 30 cm high, monoecious. Leaves thin scurfy on both surfaces, sessile, elliptic to obovate, 10 mm long, rarely to 30 mm, obtuse, entire or weakly sinuate-dentate, cuneate at base. Male flowers in glomerules in terminal axils. Female flowers in axillary clusters. Fruiting bracteoles stipitate, turbinate to narrowly turbinate, lower two-thirds united into a flattened narrowly deltoid tube 2–3 mm long, upper one-third of free appressed semicircular herbaceous reticulate lobes shortly 3-toothed; stipe slender or thickened, ± equal in length to tube. Seed circular; radicle erect, prominently projecting.
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