Stem 0.5–1 (–2.2) mm thick, pubescent to glabrescent, grey-green, yellow-green, reddish green or brown. Inflorescence a loose or congested head or spike, 2–10-flowered, single, paired or fasciculate; peduncle 3–30 (–80) mm, usually woolly-pubescent, hairs curly, yellow or grey. Floral bracts whorled; bract triangular, 1–2.5 mm, white-pubescent, light brown; bracteoles similar, smaller. Flowers sessile, ovoid, 1–3 mm long, yellow-green, densely pubescent. Sepals triangular-ovate, 1–1.5 mm, pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Petals ovate or obovate, 0.8–2.5 mm, white, yellow-green to grey-green, pubescent on both sides with ± antrorse hairs. Fertile stamens 9, white or light brown, turning brown; stamens of the first whorl angular-ovate or obovate, widest below cells, 1–2 × 0.7–1 mm, with filaments laterally expanded, mostly pubescent or ciliate. Staminodes ovoid or narrowly pyramidal, 0.7–1 × 0.4–0.5 mm, shortly stalked; basal glands angular-ovate, 0.4–1 × 0.4–0.5 mm, white or brown. Ovary fusiform, 2–2.5 × c. 0.7 mm, pubescent. Fruit globular, 8–10 mm across, grey-green or yellow-green, densely pubescent.
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