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Perennial dwarf shrub or herb, 0.08-0.45 m high; semi-prostrate to erect; sparingly branched; rootstock woody; monoecious or dioecious; glabrous. Leaves firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate or suborbicular, base cuneate-rounded to subcordate, apex subacute, obtuse or rounded, margins revolute. Stipules triangular-ovate, acuminate, sparingly fimbriate or denticulate to Sub-Entire. Flowers solitary. Male flowers: pedicels capillary; sepals obovate; disc glands 6, free, orbicular, flat and smooth; stamens 3, minute, free; anthers horizontal. Female flowers: pedicels slender; sepals 6, outer obovate, inner oblong; disc annular, thin, flat, shallowly 6-lobed; ovary sessile, 6-lobed, smooth; styles free, deeply bipartite, spreading. Fruit depressed 3-lobed to subglobose, smooth. Seeds broadly segmentiform.
Female flowers: pedicels 5–10 mm long, extending to up to 1.5 cm in fruit, horizontal, slender, reddish; sepals 6, c. 1.5 × 1 mm, the outer sepals obovate, the inner oblong, pale greenish, tinged reddish-pink, or brownish; disk annular, thin, flat, shallowly 6-lobed; ovary 1.5 mm in diameter, sessile, 6-lobed, ± smooth, pale green; styles 3, 0.75 mm long, free, deeply bipartite, spreading, yellowish-green.
Leaf blades 0.5–2 × 0.4–1.3 cm, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate or sometimes suborbicular, subacute, obtuse or rounded, sometimes mucronulate, cuneate-rounded to subcordate at the base, margins revolute, firmly chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, deep green above, paler and slightly glaucous beneath; lateral nerves in 7–10 pairs, looped well within the margin, slightly prominent above and beneath.
Male flowers: pedicels 5–7 mm long, capillary; sepals 6, c. 1 × 0.75 mm, obovate, pale pink with a reddish midrib; disk glands 6, free, orbicular, ± flat and smooth, pinkish; stamens 3, minute, free, filaments pale yellow-green, anthers horizontal, thecae apically convergent, laterally dehiscent, yellow.
A semiprostrate to erect tufted perennial herb, or suffrutex up to 45 cm tall, with several simple or sparingly branched flattened slightly winged stems arising from a small woody rootstock, monoecious or dioecious, glabrous.
Perennial herb, up to 250 mm tall. Stems numerous. Leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic, 6-10 x 4-6 mm, base cordate, appressed, glabrous and glaucous on both surfaces. Flowers yellowish green.
Seeds 1.75 × 1.5 mm, broadly segmentiform, brown, with numerous irregular rows or arcs of minute darker brown tubercles on each facet.
Stipules 1.25 × 0.75 mm, triangular-ovate, acuminate, sparingly fimbriate or denticulate to subentire, reddish-brown.
Fruit 2 × 3.5–4 mm, depressed 3-lobed to subglobose, ± smooth, pale glaucous-green.
Leaves distichous, sensitive, becoming flattened against the stem when touched.
Flowers usually solitary.
Petioles 0.5–1 mm long.
