Stem (0.2–) 0.6–1.3 mm thick, yellow-green or grey-green to dark green (dried), bristly white-hairy or glabrescent. Inflorescence a congested umbel, few–10-flowered, single, sometimes paired or fasciculate; peduncle 2.5–30 × 0.6–0.8 (–1.5) mm, pubescent, thickening (to 1.8 mm) with age. Pedicels 0.4–1.5 × 0.2–0.8 mm, distinctly white-pubescent. Bracts whorled at base or inserted at 2 levels; bract ovate, peltate, c. 1.4 × 0.7 mm, or triangular, basifixed, c. 0.7 × 0.5 mm, pubescent, brown; bracteoles triangular, c. 0.5 × 0.3 mm, pubescent, brown, sometimes persistent in fruit. Flowers ovoid, 2–2.5 × 1.3–1.6 mm, yellow outside, white inside. Sepals triangular-ovate, c. 0.6 mm, yellow-brown, pubescent outside, turning brown. Petals ovate, 1.5–1.9 × 0.8–1 mm, yellowish, antrorse-pubescent on both sides, turning dark brown. Fertile stamens 9, obovoid, white, turning brown. Staminodes narrowly pyramidal, c. 0.6 × 0.3 mm, white, turning brown, with white apex; glands ovoid, dorsiventrally flattened, c. 0.5 × 0.3 mm, white, turning brown, crested white. Ovary fusiform, c. 1.5 × 0.5 mm, glabrous or sprinkled with hairs. Receptacular tube short, white-pubescent, abruptly contracted into pedicel. Fruit fusiform-globose, c. 10 × 6 mm, grey-pubescent, yellow-green, turning green-black, globose portion carried on distinct darker pedicel.
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