Tufted andromonoecious annual or short-lived perennial, up to 0.2 m wide. Leaves crowded, petiolate; petiole (-8)20-30 (-52) mm long, pubescent along entire length, base (3-)4-5(-6) mm wide, adaxially glabrous; lamina cuneate, ovate or spathula, (16-)20-26 (-40) mm long, (11-)19-22(-33) mm wide, the base cuneate, main veins abaxially raised and adaxially sunken, surface on both sides pubescent, grey-green to green-brown, concolourous, the margin adaxially raised, obtusely lobed in upper half of leaf and entire in lower half, (5-)7-9(-14) lobes per leaf; apex acute. Inflorescence with central bisexual flower and four lateral male flowers borne along the shoots; ray (4-)8-19(-19) mm long, peduncle absent; bracts longer than the male flowers, lanceolate, 4-6 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, abaxially pubescent, adaxially glabrous except along upper margin, with prominent dark veins. Flowers with glabrous petals; pedicel of male flower 2-5 mm long, pubescent along entire length. Fruit widely ovate in commissural view, 3-4 mm long, 3-5 mm wide; surface wrinkled, thinly pubescent, ribs relatively prominent, no commissural proliferation; stylopodium prominent, 2-4 x 1-2 mm.
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Tufted annual or short-lived perennial to 10 cm. Leaves petiolate, cuneate or spathulate, densely white-hairy or rusty hairy, obtusely lobed above. Flowers in umbels with 4 lateral shortly pedicellate male flowers and a large, central, sessile, bisexual flower, male flowers shorter than bracts, whitish. Fruit relatively small, obovate, shorter than bracts, ribbed, wrinkled, thinly hairy.
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