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Male flowers: pedicels 1.5 mm long; calyx tube 2 mm long, calyx lobes 1.3 × 1 mm, ovate, obtuse, entire; petals 7 × 2 mm, oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse or rounded, completely glabrous; disk glands 5, 0.75 × 0.75 mm, free, erect, squarish, flat; stamens 8, the 5 outer 5.5 mm long, free, the 3 inner 6 mm long, united at the base, anthers 3 mm long, sagittate.
Female flowers: pedicels 3 mm long, stouter than in the male; calyx tube 0.5 mm long, calyx lobes 3 × 1.3 mm, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, entire; petals 8 × 1 mm, linear, obtuse, completely glabrous; disk 5-lobed, the lobes c. 1 mm across, transversely ovate, flat, rounded; ovary 2 × 1.67 mm, 3-lobed to subcylindric, smooth; styles not known.
Inflorescences terminal, up to 4 cm long, the peduncle c. 1 cm long; bracts 2–3 mm long, ovate, subentire or denticulate.
An erect glabrous branched perennial herb up to 30 cm tall, perhaps arising from a tuberous rootstock.
Stipules 4–7 mm long, strap-shaped, green, irregularly whitish-lacerate, persistent.
Fruit 1.4 × 1.2 cm, 3-lobed to subcylindric, smooth.
Mature seeds not seen.
Petioles 1–5 mm long.
