Subshrubs, erect, 4–10 dm, dioecious. Stems green, grayish green, or yellowish green, hairy, hairs simple or stellate, white or yellow, becoming glabrate; internodes terete, 8–59 × 1–3 mm. Leaves bright green, yellowish green, or grayish green, well developed, hairy, hairs simple or stellate; petiole 3–8 mm; blade obovate, spatulate, ovate, ovate-elliptic, or nearly orbiculate, 14–48 × 8–30 mm, thin to thick and rigid, base cuneate to obtuse, apex rounded; basal phyllotaxy transverse. Staminate inflorescences 10–80 mm, hairy, hairs simple or stellate; peduncle with 1 internodes, 2–4 mm; fertile internodes 2–7, each (15–)29–39(–62)-flowered, triseriate, becoming irregular, flowers 1–10 per column. Pistillate inflorescences 10–80 mm, hairy, hairs simple or stellate; peduncle with 1 internode, 2–4 mm; fertile internodes 2–6, each (4–)6–11(–20)-flowered, triseriate, flowers 1–3 per column. Flowers: petals 3, 1 mm. Berries white, oblong to globose, 3–6 × 2–5 mm, glabrous.
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