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A bushy shrub up to 1.5 m tall, glabrous, asperulous, papillose or puberulous, monoecious or sometimes dioecious; stems with longitudinally peeling bark. Twigs light brown at first, later becoming greyish. Lateral leafy shoots 1-3(10) cm long. Short shoots developing, giving rise to secondary lateral shoots. Scale leaves c. 1 mm long, linear-lanceolate; stipules c. 1.5 mm long, triangular-lanceolate, purplish-brown. Foliage leaves distichous; petioles 0.5 mm long; stipules 1 mm long, linear-lanceolate, pale brown. Leaf blades 3-17 x 2-9 mm, elliptic, obovate or suborbicular, obtuse, rounded or retuse, sometimes mucronate, cuneate to rounded at the base, thinly chartaceous when dried, slightly asperulous along the midrib and main nerves above and beneath and on the margin or else quite glabrous, fleshy, pale green; lateral nerves in 3-5 pairs, weakly brochidodromous, scarcely prominent above, slightly so beneath. Flowers solitary. Male flowers: pedicels 1 mm long; sepals 6, 2-seriate, the outer 2 x 0.5 mm, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, the inner 2.5 x 1 mm, lanceolate, subacute, minutely granulate without, white or cream-coloured with a greenish midrib; disk glands 6, in 3 pairs opposite the inner sepals, 0.3 x 0.2 mm, oblong, flat, ± smooth; stamens 3, filaments connate into a slender column 2 mm high, anthers 1 x 0.4 mm, free, divaricate, fusiform, connective broad, longitudinally dehiscent. Female flowers: pedicels 2-4 mm long, extending to 5-6 mm in fruit; sepals 6, 3 x 1.5-2 mm, accrescent to 5 x 4 mm, broadly ovate-suborbicular, subacute to rounded, pale green with a creamy-white margin, venose, completely enclosing the fruit; disk 1.2 mm in diameter, 6-lobed, thick, papillose; ovary 1-1.5 mm in diameter, shortly stipitate, 6-lobed, subglobose, smooth; styles 3, ± free, 1 mm long, spreading, deeply bifid, stigmas filiform, ± straight or coiled. Fruit 2.2 x 3.5 mm, depressed, somewhat 3-lobed to subglobose, smooth, olivaceous. Seeds 2 x 1.5 x 1.3 mm, rounded-trigonous, ochreous, with 6-8 shallow scarcely perceptible longitudinal ridges on the dorsal facet, and 6 concentric such ridges on each ventral facet, with innumerable transverse striae between them.
Male flowers: pedicels 1 mm long; sepals 6, 2-seriate, the outer 2 × 0.5 mm, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, the inner 2.5 × 1 mm, lanceolate, subacute, minutely granulate without, white or cream-coloured with a greenish midrib; disk glands 6, in 3 pairs opposite the inner sepals, 0.3 × 0.2 mm, oblong, flat, ± smooth; stamens 3, filaments connate into a slender column 2 mm high, anthers 1 × 0.4 mm, free, divaricate, fusiform, connective broad, longitudinally dehiscent.
Female flowers: pedicels 2–4 mm long, extending to 5–6 mm in fruit; sepals 6, 3 × 1.5–2 mm, accrescent to 5 × 4 mm, broadly ovate-suborbicular, subacute to rounded, pale green with a creamy-white margin, venose, completely enclosing the fruit; disk 1.2 mm in diameter, 6-lobed, thick, papillose; ovary 1–1.5 mm in diameter, shortly stipitate, 6-lobed, subglobose, smooth; styles 3, ± free, 1 mm long, spreading, deeply bifid, stigmas filiform, ± straight or coiled.
Leaf blades 3–17 × 2–9 mm, elliptic, obovate or suborbicular, obtuse, rounded or retuse, sometimes mucronate, cuneate to rounded at the base, thinly chartaceous when dried, slightly asperulous along the midrib and main nerves above and beneath and on the margin or else quite glabrous, fleshy, pale green; lateral nerves in 3–5 pairs, weakly brochidodromous, scarcely prominent above, slightly so beneath.
Seeds 2 × 1.5 × 1.3 mm, rounded-trigonous, ochreous, with 6–8 shallow scarcely perceptible longitudinal ridges on the dorsal facet, and 6 concentric such ridges on each ventral facet, with innumerable transverse striae between them.
A bushy shrub up to 1.5 m tall, glabrous, asperulous, papillose or puberulous, monoecious or sometimes dioecious; stems with longitudinally peeling bark.
Scale leaves c. 1 mm long, linear-lanceolate; stipules c. 1.5 mm long, triangular-lanceolate, purplish-brown.
Foliage leaves distichous; petioles 0.5 mm long; stipules 1 mm long, linear-lanceolate, pale brown.
Fruit 2.2 × 3.5 mm, depressed, somewhat 3-lobed to subglobose, smooth, olivaceous.
Short shoots developing, giving rise to secondary lateral shoots.
Twigs light brown at first, later becoming greyish.
Lateral leafy shoots 1–3(10) cm long.
Flowers solitary.
