Shrubs, monoecious, 10–30 dm; branching phyllanthoid. Stems: main stems terete, not winged, glabrous; ultimate branchlets deciduous, flat cladodes to 1 cm wide, not winged, glabrous. Leaves on main stems deciduous, spiral, scalelike; stipules not auriculate, dark brown. Leaves on ultimate branchlets caducous, distichous, scalelike; stipules absent. Inflorescences cymules, bisexual or staminate, with 1–2(–3) pistillate and/or 2–5 staminate flowers. Pedicels: staminate (1–)2–6 mm, pistillate spreading in fruit, (1–)2–4(–7) mm. Staminate flowers: sepals 6, purplish pink to cream, flat, (0.8–)1–1.5(–2.3) mm; nectary extrastaminal, 6 distinct glands; stamens 3(–5), filaments connate 1/2–3/4 length. Pistillate flowers: sepals 6, purplish pink to cream, flat, 1–1.5(–2.2) mm, 1-veined; nectary annular, undulate or crenulate. Capsules 3–4 mm diam., finely wrinkled. Seeds uniformly brown, 1.4–2.6 mm, irregularly verrucose.
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