Shrubs, monoecious, 0.5–2 dm; branching not phyllanthoid. Stems terete, not winged, glabrous. Leaves persistent, spiral, all well developed; stipules auriculate, pink with narrow white margins; blade narrowly oblanceolate, 1.5–3.5(–5) × 0.7–1.5 mm, base obtuse to rounded, apex pungent, both surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences solitary flowers, staminate proximal, pistillate distal. Pedicels: staminate 0.6–0.8 mm, pistillate spreading in fruit, 0.9–1.2 mm. Staminate flowers: sepals 6, pale brownish green, flat, 0.9–1.2 mm; nectary extrastaminal, 6 glands; stamens 3, filaments connate throughout. Pistillate flowers: sepals 6, pale brownish green, flat, 1.1–1.4 mm, obscurely veined; nectary annular, 6-lobed. Capsules 2 mm diam., smooth. Seeds uniformly brown, 0.9–1 mm, verrucose.
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