Subshrubs, erect, 3.5–5 dm, monoecious. Stems green, glabrous; internodes quadrangular proximally, flattened distally, keeled proximally to nodes, 20–30 × 3(–7) mm. Leaves dull green, well developed; petiole (3–)5(–8) mm; blade obovate, elliptic, oblanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, (40–)50.5(–90) × 20–40 mm, thin, base cuneate, apex rounded; basal phyllotaxy median. Inflorescences bisexual, staminate flowers few, irregularly placed among pistillate, to 25 mm; peduncle with 1(–2) internodes, each 3 mm; fertile internodes 3, each 6–18-flowered, biseriate, flowers 1–4 per column. Flowers: petals 3, 1 mm. Berries lemon yellow or orange [pink, red], ovoid to globose, 4 × 3 mm, glabrous.
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