Stem 0.5–2.5 mm thick, glabrescent, rarely rugulose, yellow-green, green to green-red. Inflorescence a raceme or panicle, 1–5-flowered, single or fasciculate; peduncles 1–7 mm long. Floral bracts inserted at 2 levels; bract angular-ovate, 1–1.5 × c. 1 mm, fleshy or leathery, puberulent, ciliate; bracteoles similar, smaller. Pedicel 0.2–1 × c. 0.4 mm. Flowers ovate, 1.7–2.5 mm long, yellow. Sepals triangular, c. 1.2 mm, mostly glabrous, yellow, in fruit light-brown, immersed in glandular rim. Petals ovate, c. 2 × 1.5 mm, glabrous or rarely sprinkled with few hairs outside, yellow, in fruit dark brown. Fertile stamens 9, narrow obovoid, white, outer flattened. Staminodes cordate to pyramidal, laterally compressed, c. 1 × 0.7 mm, conspicuously white-glandular crested; glands ovate, c. 0.8 × 0.5 mm, also white-glandular tipped. Ovary fusiform, c. 2 × 0.7 mm, with ring of hairs medially. Fruit globular, c. 7 × 6.5 mm (dried obovoid, grey-brown), pubescent, broadly banded with dull-green and dull red-brown hairs; glandular rim much more conspicuous on dried specimens.
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