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Male flowers: pedicels 0.3–0.4 mm long, slender; sepals 6, very unequal, the outer 1 × 0.5 mm, lanceolate, acute, the inner 0.6 × 0.4 mm, ovate, apiculate and subcucullate, white with a narrow greenish midrib; disk glands 6, free, c. 0.1 mm across, ± rounded, smooth; stamens 3, filaments connate into a column 0.5 mm high, anthers 0.25 mm across, sessile, 4-lobed, horizontally held, transversely dehiscent, yellow.
Leaf blades 2–5 × 1–2 mm, ovate to elliptic-oblong, subacute or obtuse, rounded to rounded-cuneate at the base, membranaceous, smooth to minutely papillose above, often scabridulous beneath, uniformly green (Mozambique) or somewhat discolorous (Zimbabwe); lateral nerves in 4–6 pairs, not visible above, visible or not beneath.
Seeds 1 × 0.9 × 0.8 mm, segmentiform, yellowish-brown, with c. 14–17 fine and somewhat irregularly spaced longitudinal ridges on the dorsal facet, and c. 12 somewhat fractured concentric ridges on each ventral facet, with innumerable parallel transverse striae between them.
Scale leaves 1.2 mm long, linear-lanceolate; stipules 1–1.2 mm long, triangular-lanceolate, sometimes with an abaxial filiform lobule.
Male flowers solitary or paired in the proximal axils of the lateral shoots, females solitary in the distal axils.
A glabrous to asperulous semiprostrate annual to perennial herb up to 60 cm tall, but often much less, monoecious.
Foliage leaves distichous; petioles 0.5 mm long; stipules 0.8 mm long, linear, pallid with a light brown midrib.
Fruit 1.3 × 2 mm, oblate, minutely foveolate-reticulate above, ± smooth beneath, pale green.
Lead shoots angular; lateral shoots 2–8 cm long.
