Low dioecious shrub with creeping underground stem. Aerial branches 10–50 cm long, in semi-erect tufts. Leaves usually simple (rarely deeply 3-lobed to ternate); lamina broadly ovate to narrowly lanceolate, 2–10 cm long, 0.7–3 cm wide, entire or coarsely toothed, acute to obtuse, rather thick, glabrous. Flowers usually solitary, terminal, sometimes in 3-flowered dichasia, long-pedunculate. Tepals narrow-ovate to oblong, 2–4 cm long, ± glabrous, white. Stamens 3–13 mm long; filaments glabrous; anthers narrowly ovate, 2–2.5 mm long, with subulate appendage, 0.3–0.8 mm long; staminodes present. Achenes compressed, obovoid, 4–5 mm long, 1.8–2.5 mm wide brown, villous; awn 2–3 cm long.
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