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A herb. It can be a small shrub with several stems. It has underground stems or rhizomes. It can grow 3.6 m high. It has a woody rootstock. The new stems have hairs. The leaf blades can be 1-11 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. They are narrowly oval. The flowers are in clusters at the ends of branches. They are white with yellow stamens. The male flower head is 2 cm across. There is a ring of 1-4 female flowers at its base. The fruit are 1 cm long by 1.5 cm wide. It is a woody capsule. They are green and hairy. The seeds are 6-8 mm across and light brown.
Leaf blades 1–10.5 × 0.5–5 cm, ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse at the apex, rounded, truncate or very shallowly cordate at the base, entire or subentire on the margins, chartaceous, 3–5-nerved from the base, evenly or sparingly stellate-pubescent to subglabrous on upper surface, more densely so beneath, sometimes slightly viscid, pale grey-green or almost glaucous, sometimes pinkish-tinged; lateral nerves in 4–6(10) pairs, not or scarcely prominent.
Female flowers: pedicels 3–5 mm long, extending to 7 cm in fruit, pubescent; sepals 6, 4 × 2 mm, extending to 2.5 × 1 cm in fruit, bipinnatipartite, the lateral lobes linear, the lobules subulate-filiform, pubescent, green; ovary 1.5 mm in diameter, 3-lobed, densely pubescent; styles 4–5 mm long, the segments filiform, glabrous, orange-yellow.
Male flowers: pedicels 3–4 mm long, ± glabrous; calyx lobes 4, 2 × 1–1.5 mm, ovate to elliptic-ovate, ± acute, usually glabrous, pale yellowish-green; stamens 5–6 mm long, filaments orange-yellow, anthers 1 mm long, pale yellow; pistillode 1 mm high, cylindric, scarcely lobulate.
Much-branched shrub, up to 1 m high. Twigs, leaves and pedicels stellate velvety. Leaves simple, oblong, subentire, subsessile. Styles yellow. Flowers yellow.
Male flowering head 0.5–2 cm in diameter; peduncle 1–10 cm long, with a whorl of 1–4(7) female flowers at its base; bracts resembling the stipules.
Stems evenly to densely stellate-pubescent at first, with or without glandular hairs, later glabrescent and greyish with white lenticels.
An erect, much-branched, woody perennial herb or shrub up to 3.6 m tall, with the stems arising from a woody rootstock.
Fruit 0.6–1.1 × 1.3–1.7 cm, evenly pubescent, green. Columella 6 mm high, broadly winged.
Seeds 6–8 mm in diameter, fawn or light brown, dull.
Stipules 1–4 mm long, subulate-filiform.
Plants rarely dioecious.
Petioles 0.5–7 mm long.
