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Leaf blades 0.5–3(6) × 0.3–1.5(2.5) cm, obovate to elliptic-lanceolate, rounded or obtuse, sometimes subacute at the apex, rounded or cuneate at the base, chartaceous, sparingly pubescent to subglabrous on both surfaces, bright green above, greyish-green beneath, later turning bright red; lateral nerves in 3–8 pairs, often indistinct.
Female flowers solitary or in pairs; pedicels 1–2.5(5) mm long, not extending in fruit; sepals 2 × 1 mm, oblong, obtuse, each with 1–3 flattened rounded or truncate glands at the base, green; petals 2 × 1 mm, oblanceolate, eglandular, greenish-yellow; ovary 1.5 mm in diameter, glabrous; styles 1 mm long, divaricate.
A virgate much-branched subshrub or shrub up to 2.5 m tall, sparingly pubescent, dioecious.
Seeds 3 × 2 × 1.5 mm, compressed-ellipsoid, smooth; caruncle 0.5 × 1 mm, pale yellow.
Male fascicles many-flowered; bracts 0.5 mm long, deltate, chaffy, chestnut-brown.
Fruit 4 × 4 mm, glabrous, green at first, later dull reddish-brown.
Petioles 0.5–3(5) mm long.
Stipules absent.
