Loosely tufted, functionally dioecious perennial, up to m wide; underground stems slender, branched. Leave crowded; petiole (8-)16-22(-27) mm long, mostly pubescent along the entire length, base 2-4 mm wide, adaxially glabrous; lamina cuneate, ovate or spathulate, (8-)12-16(-24) mm long, (6-)7-10(-16) mm wide, the base cuneate, main veins abaxially slightly raised and adaxially slightly sunken; surface on both sides pubescent, grey-green to green-brown, concolourous, mostly obtusely lobed in upper half of leaf and entire in lower half, rarely entire, (0-)5-7(-9) lobes per leaf; apex acute, sometimes shorter than the lobes. Inflorescence with centra] bisexual flower (abortive ovary in functionally male plants) and with four lateral pedicellate male flowers (abortive and sessile in functionally female plants) borne along the shoots; ray (3-)13-17(-30) mm long, peduncle absent or rarely present, 16-30 mm long; bracts shorter than the male flowers, 4-7 mm long, 1-4 mm wide, lanceolate, abaxially pubescent, adaxially glabrous except along upper margin, with prominent dark veins. Flowers with glabrous petals; pedicel of male flower 4-8 mm long, pubescent along entire length. Fruit widely ovate in commissural view, 3-7 mm long, 4-7 mm wide; surface wrinkled, thinly pubescent, ribs prominent, no commissural proliferation; stylopodium 4-9 x 2-4 mm, red-brown.
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Loosely tufted perennial to 10 cm, spreading from underground stems. Leaves petiolate, cuneate or spathulate, densely white-hairy or rusty hairy, obtusely lobed above. Flowers in umbels with an abortive central flower and 4 lateral pedicellate male flowers in functionally male plants or with a large, central, bisexual flower with 4 lateral abortive and sessile flowers in functionally female plants, male flowers longer than bracts, whitish, with purple stylopodia. Fruit large, obovate, shorter than bracts, ribbed, wrinkled, thinly hairy.
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