Erect herb or undershrub, 1-2 m. Young stems, petioles, leaves, rachises of the spikes, bracts and bracteoles frequently clothed with shortish, thick-ish brown hairs, glabrescent; stem in the higher part obtusangular. Leaves ovate-oblong-lanceolate from a cuneate or shortly contracted base, narrowed upwards or slightly acuminate, acute, herbaceous or slightly fleshy, 3-22 by 1½-12 cm; midrib in the living plant slightly prominent beneath; petiole ½-5 cm. Flowers spicate; spikes axillary, single or sometimes paired, erect or more or less patent, simple or sometimes sparingly branched, 3-20 cm long, rather dense or, at an advanced age, rather lax, 4-50-flowered. Flowers quite sessile; bracts broadly ovate, obtuse or rather acute, ± 1½ mm long; bracteoles ovate, 1-1¼ mm. Perianth 2¼-2½ mm long. Tepals during anthesis erect or obliquely erect, afterwards appressed to the fruit, very obtuse, green, white-bordered. Staminal cup ¾-1 mm high; free parts of the filaments about as long as the cup or slightly longer. Stigmas 2-3, recurved or on the fruit obliquely erect or patent, ½-⅔ mm long. Berry globose or broadly ellipsoid, white, ± 3 mm diam. Seeds 10-64, usually more than 20, reniform, ± ¾ mm diam, very finely verruculose.
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A slightly shrubby plant 1 to 2 metres long and green. It normally grows erect. The stems are hairy on young parts. The leaves are alternate along the stem. They are on 1-5 cm long leaf stalks. The leaf blade is 8-20 cm long by 3-7 cm wide. The leaves have a fine warty appearance. The flower cluster can have one branch. The flowers have both sexes. The fruit is a berry which is slightly flattened and 3-5 cm across. They can contain 20 or more seeds. The seeds can be 1 cm across and black and finely warty.
Herbs erect or subshrubs, 1-2 m tall. Petiole glabrous; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 8-15 × 4-7 cm, apex acuminate or acute. Spikes axillary, solitary or paired, 3-12 cm. Tepals adnate to fruit. Filaments connate into a cup at base. Ovules more than 10; stigmas 2 or 3. Berry white, 4-5 mm in diam. Seeds reniform, ca. 0.7 mm in diam., finely verruculose. Fl. and fr. Jun-Dec.
In Java, 5-800 m alt. (in the Philippines ascending to 1800 m, according to MERRILL), in thickets and shaded localities, in forests and on forest borders, much rarer than D. amaranthoides.
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A tropical plant. It occurs in pasture land in the Philippines. In Papua New Guinea is occurs in moist places near water courses. It grows from sea level to 1,000 m altitude.
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