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Female flowers: pedicels 1.5 mm long, extending to 2–3 mm in fruit, scaberulous to minutely papillose; sepals 5, 1.2 × 0.8 mm, slightly accrescent in fruit, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, reddish-green with whitish margins; disk 0.6 mm in diameter, annular, thin, undulate; ovary 0.7 mm in diameter, sessile, 3-lobed to subglobose, smooth; styles 3, 0.5 mm long, free, suberect, bifid, stigmas recurved.
Male flowers: pedicels c. 1 mm long, capillary; sepals 5, 1–1.2 × 0.8–1 mm, elliptic-obovate, cream-coloured with a pinkish midrib, sometimes pinkish-flecked; disk glands 5, 0.3 mm across, free, transversely ovate, thin, flat, smooth, ± truncate; stamens (4)5, ± free, filaments 0.75 mm long, erect, anthers 0.25 mm across, inclined or horizontal, obliquely or laterally dehiscent.
Seeds 1.5 × 1.2 × 1.2 mm, segmentiform, dark reddish-brown, with c. 25 rows of minute somewhat darker tubercles on the dorsal facet, and c. 25 concentric arcs on each ventral facet.
Fruit 2 × 3–3.5 mm, depressed3-lobed to subglobose, ± smooth to faintly venose, glabrous, yellowish-green to dark purplish-brown. Columella 1 mm long.
Scale leaves 3 mm long, linear-filiform; stipules 3.5–4 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, irregularly denticulate, dark purplish-brown in the upper half.
An erect or procumbent annual or perennial herb or subshrub up to 60 cm tall, monoecious, later developing a vertical woody rootstock.
Male flowers single or geminate in the lowest axils of the lateral shoots, female solitary in the distal axils.
Lead shoots somewhat scaberulous, subterete; lateral shoots up to 8 cm long, terete, scaberulous-papillose.
