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Monoecious, spineless, scarcely succulent, glabrous shrub, up to 2.5 m tall. Leaves deciduous, oblong to lanceolate 3-20 x 1.3-5 mm, slightly succulent. Cyathia solitary, terminal, on short shoots on younger branches, 4-5 mm diam., with 5 entire, yellow-green glands. Capsule exserted on ascending pedicel, 6-10 mm diam., glabrous.
Leaves with a petiole 1–3 mm long; stipules glandular, triangular, minute, dark brown; lamina 1.5–3.5 × 0.5–1.3 cm, obovate to lanceolate, rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, entire, minutely pubescent especially beneath, rarely almost glabrous.
Woody shrub or small tree, up to 6 m high. Leaves 3.0-6.0 x 1.3-2.5, oblong, obovate or lanceolate, minutely puberulous on both sides. Cyathia solitary, produced on very suppressed flowering branchlets. Flowers lime-green.
Cyathia 2.5 × 3.5 mm with cup-shaped involucres, minutely pubescent, at least at the base; glands 5, 1 × 1.5 mm, transversely elliptic, spreading; lobes 0.5 mm long, rounded, margin denticulate, ciliate.
Seeds 4.5 × 3.5 mm, ovoid with obtusely pointed apex, slightly dorsi-ventrally compressed, smooth, grey, speckled; caruncle 2.3 mm in diameter, cap-like.
Female flower: ovary glabrous, subtended by an obvious 3-lobed perianth; styles 2.5 mm long, joined to halfway with spreading bifid apices.
Cymes reduced to solitary axillary subsessile cyathia on dwarf leafy branchlets; bracts scarious, 1 × 1 mm, rounded, margins ciliate.
Capsule c. 9 × 9 mm, deeply 3-lobed, minutely pubescent, exserted on a reflexed pedicel 6–9 mm long.
Woody shrub or small tree to 3 m high with a papery bark; branches reddish-brown.
Male flowers: bracteoles deeply laciniate, apices ciliate; stamens 3.5 mm long.
