Plant glabrous; stem 0.3–0.7 mm thick, (drying golden-reddish to brown). Inflorescence a single 3–5 (–more?)-flowered loose cluster; peduncle 8–20 mm long, c. 0.4 mm thick. Floral bracts inserted at 2 levels (drying brownish); bract basal, ovate to triangular, subacute, c. 0.8 × 0.5 mm; bracteoles triangular, subacute, c. 0.4 × 0.3 mm, clasping pedicel in upper ⅔, persistent in fruit. Pedicel 1 mm or slightly longer, c. 0.3 mm thick, to 0.5 mm thick in fruit. Flowers globular, c. 1 mm diam.; receptacular tube fusiform, gradually narrowing into pedicel. Sepals triangular, c. 0.7 × 0.6 mm, subacute. Petals ovate, c. 0.9 × 0.8 mm, subacute, slightly hooded, golden-brown (dried). Fertile stamens 9 (drying light brown). Staminodes ovoid, c. 0.1 mm long; glands ¾ of size of staminode. Ovary c. 0.9 × 0.3 mm (drying light-brown). Fruit ovoid, 4.2–4.5 × 2.5–3 mm, dark red-brown, longitudinally striate with darker lines, surmounted by conspicuous verrucae in the form of a thick plate (black dried); spheroid portion carried on extended receptacular tube, which gradually attenuates into pedicel.
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