Erect, medium shrub, up to 1.8 m high, resprouting after fire and spreading clonally; only forming long branches; young stems 1.5-2.1 mm wide, completely sheathed by leaf bases. Leaves unifoliate, ovate-elliptic to oblong, 10-27 x 5-16 mm, apex sharply long-acuminate to pungent, 1.2-3.1 mm long, margins flat with 5-8 broad teeth, 0.8-5.8 mm long; lamina 5-9-veined from base, tough and rigid, midrib prominent beneath, 0.3-0.8 mm thick, curved downwards and away from stem, glabrous; sheath 1.9-3.5 mm long, abaxially glabrous, adaxially glabrous except sometimes for fringe of hairs at apex; stipules 1.0-5.5 mm long, free, margin smooth; petiole absent. Flowers solitary in axil of undifferentiated leaves; bracteoles hairy on keel, margins smooth; sepals 3, glabrous. Male flowers: bracteoles 3.8-7.0 mm long; pedicel 0.8-1.3 mm long, glabrous; sepals broadly ovate, 6.7-10.4 x 3.0-5.9 mm, acute to acuminate at apex; stamens 21-34; filaments 2.8-5.5 mm long, greenish white; anthers yellow. Female flowers: bracteoles 5.5-6.5 mm long, longer than immature receptacle; sepals broadly ovate to triangular, 2.8-3.9 x 0.9-1.6 mm, erect; carpel 1; stigma 1.8-2.5 mm long, red or sometimes greenish white, feathery, hidden at base of leaves; immature receptacle 2.3-3.7 x 1.8-2.7 mm, glabrous, smooth. Achene ovoid, 6.4-7.4 x 4.4-4.6 mm, medium to dark brown, glabrous; ribs rounded to sharply acute.
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Resprouting, monoecious shrub to 1.8 m. Leaves simple, broadly ovate-oblong, 10-27 x 5-16 mm, pungent and sharply toothed. Flowers: male: stamens 21-34; female: receptacle 2.3-3.7 mm, smooth.
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