Herbs, dioecious, prostrate or decumbent, 2-10 dm. Stems forming tangled mats 1-3 m across, woody at base, white scurfy. Leaves numerous, mostly opposite; blade broadly elliptic to ovate, 8-25 mm, often surpassing internodes, thick and fleshy (when fresh), margin entire, apex acutish, white scurfy. Staminate flowers in large glomerules in naked, interrupted terminal spikes; calyx 5-cleft. Pistillate flowers in small, axillary clusters. Fruiting bracteoles sessile or short stipitate, ovate to rhombic, united to beyond middle, 4-8 mm, margin entire to erose, faces plane. Seeds light brown, 1-1.5 mm.
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