Monoecious or dioecious shrub to 1.5 m. Leaves simple, linear, to 60 mm long, minutely denticulate, cauline leaves fugacious, leaf sheath 8-13 mm long, reddish, stipules to 20 mm long, densely hairy. Flowers: male: pedicel ± 8 mm long, densely hairy, bracteoles densely hairy, situated 1.5 mm apart on pedicel, stamens ± 20; female: pedicel 1.6 mm long with half that length above upper bracteole, receptacle 2.6 mm long, ovoid, irregularly ribbed.