Prostrate andromonoecious perennial, up to 2.5 m wide, with flowering branches spreading horizontally from a central tuft of basal leaves. Leaves dimorphic, elliptic to narrowly elliptic, the base attenuate, main veins abaxially raised and adaxially sunken, surface on both sides pubescent to glabrescent, grey-green to red-green, concolorous, margin dentate in upper third and entire lower down; basal leaves with petiole 30-155 mm long, pubescent to glabrous along entire length, lamina (30-)35(-60) mm long, (3-)15(-30) mm wide; margin occasionally entire or with two to five acuminate teeth in upper third; apex acuminate; upper leaves (on flowering shoots) sessile or sometimes petiolate, petiole 2-60 mm long, pubescent to glabrous along entire length, lamina 5-35 mm long, 5-22 mm wide; margin entire or occasionally with two to three acuminate teeth in upper third; apex acuminate. Inflorescence with a single bisexual umbellule and three male umbellules. Male umbellules 10-25 mm long, with five male flowers each. Bisexual umbellules 15-40 mm long, with a single flower each; borne in axils of flowering shoots; bracts of male umbellules paired, up to 1.5 mm long, not foliaceous, glabrous; bracts of the bisexual umbellule paired, 1-2 mm long, 1 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers with cream coloured petals; petals pubescent to glabrous. Fruit narrowly oblong, 4-5 mm long, 2 mm wide in commissural view, with bulging commissure, ribs prominent, the surface between the ribs wrinkled, pubescent or glabrous; stylopodium not prominent.
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Prostrate, sprawling perennial to 2 m wide. Leaves as in C. difformis. Fruit narrowly oblong, always much longer than bracts, slightly ribbed, smooth, borne on long, slender, often spirally curved stalks.