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Monoecious shrub 20–70 cm high. Leaves obovoid, obtusely trigonous in cross-section, 4–15 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, rounded acute. Male flowers axillary or terminal, sessile, subtended when young by 2 concave bracts up to 4 mm long and 2 mm wide with membranous margins; the 2 united bracteoles forming a campanulate structure; staminal filaments linear, terete, 2–2.5 mm long; anthers elliptic, c. 1 mm long, the connective distinctly protruding; staminodes 1.5–2.5 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide. Female flowers solitary (sometimes one fertile male flower between two female flowers at apex of branchlet or with only one axillary female flower and an apical fertile male flower), sessile, obliquely ovoid-ellipsoidal, 4–7 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide; abaxial locules smaller than adaxial; stigmas sessile, papillate. Fruit an oblique fleshy drupe up to 11 mm long and 5 mm wide. Seeds 5–5.5 mm long, 1.1–1.2 mm wide.
