Stem 0.5–1.5 mm thick, glabrescent, yellow-green, green-brown (dried), young shoots white-pubescent with retrorse hairs. Inflorescence a crowded glomerule, 2–20 (rarely more)-flowered, single or fasciculate; peduncle 1–3 × c. 1 mm, grey-pubescent turning brown. Floral bracts whorled; bract ovate, subacute, c. 1.5 × 1 mm, ± basifixed, glabrescent, ciliate or with a ± hyaline margin, yellow-green turning brown, occasionally with central gland; bracteoles similar, c. 1 × 1 mm, basifixed, glandless. Flowers sessile, first ovoid, later obovoid, 1.3–2.7 × 1.4–2 mm, first greenish, later yellow. Sepals ovate, c. 1.2 mm, glabrous (rarely sprinkled with a few hairs), green-yellow maturing yellow, becoming brown and leathery on fruit. Petals ovate, obtuse, 1.2–2.5 × 1–2 mm, glabrous outside, pubescent inside, yellow when mature, in fruit brown and leathery. Fertile stamens 9, at first white, with staminodes and glands turning brown. Staminodes pyramidal, c. 0.6 × 0.4 mm, with distinct white glandular tip; glands ovoid, c. 0.5 × 0.3 mm, with distinct white glandular tip. Ovary filiform, c. 1.3 × 0.4 mm, glabrous. Fruit globular, 5–7 × 4–6 mm, glabrous, green to yellowish green, sometimes with yellow-reddish stripes, drying black.
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