Tufted andromonoecious annual or short-lived perennial. Leaves crowded, distinctly petiolate; petiole, (16-)25-35(-65) mm long, pubescent along entire length, base (3-)4-5(-6) mm wide, adaxially glabrous; lamina very widely ovate, (12-)14-18(-22) mm long, (4-)4-10(-24) mm wide, the base truncate to widely cuneate, main veins abaxially raised; surface on both sides sericeous, grey-green, concolourous, the margin dentate in upper half of leaf and entire in lower half, (5-)8-15(-17) teeth per leaf; apex rounded. In-' florescence with central bisexual flower and four lateral male flowers, borne at base of plant; ray (5-)10-18(-37) mm long; peduncle 0-2.5 mm long; bracts longer than the male flowers, (3-)4-5(-6) mm long, (2-)4-5(-6) mm wide, lanceolate, abaxially sericeous, adaxially glabrous except along upper mar-m, with prominent dark veins. Flowers with abaxially densely villous petals; pedicel of male flower (0.27-)0.32-0.36(-0.41) mm long, densely pubescent along entire length, with particularly dense hair towards the stylopodium. Fruit widely depressed ovate in commissural view, 4-5 mm long, 4-6 mm wide; surface wrinkled, thinly tomentose, ribs relatively prominent, no commissural proliferation; stylopodium prominent, 2.7-4.1 x 1.4-1.5 mm.
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Tufted annual or short-lived perennial to 10 cm. Leaves petiolate, widely ovate, densely white-or brown-woolly, finely toothed above. Flowers in umbels with 4 lateral shortly pedicellate male flowers and a central sessile bisexual flower. Fruit obovate, shorter than bracts, ribbed, wrinkled, thinly hairy.
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