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Foliage leaves distichous; petioles 0.5–1 mm long; stipules 1–1.5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, reddish-brown with hyaline margins; blades 0.2–2.3 × 0.1–1.4 cm, suborbicular, obovate or elliptic, subacute to rounded or truncate, rounded to cuneate at the base, membranous to chartaceous, usually glabrous above and beneath, rarely somewhat papillose-puberulous along the midrib and main nerves, light yellow-green to bright blue-green or dark grey-green above, paler and somewhat glaucous beneath, margins slightly recurved and sometimes purplish-tinged; lateral nerves in 4–12 pairs, not prominent above, scarcely so beneath.
Female flowers: pedicels (5)7–20 mm long, capillary, red; sepals 5(6), 1 × 0.75 mm, elliptic-ovate, yellowish-green, often reddish-or brownish-tinged; disk 0.75 mm in diameter, annular, flat, entire; ovary 1 mm in diameter, sessile, depressed-subglobose, smooth; styles 3, 0.5 mm long, free, spreading, bifid, stigmas curved.
Male flowers: pedicels 5–6 mm long, capillary; sepals 5, 1 × 1 mm, suborbicular-obovate, cream-coloured or whitish with a green midrib, sometimes pink-tinged; disk glands 5, minute, free, flat, petaloid; stamens 5, free, filaments 0.75 mm long, erect, anthers minute, horizontal, transversely dehiscent, yellow.
An erect or semiscandent annual or perennial herb, or weak-stemmed sparingly-branched subshrub up to 3 m tall, but commonly much less, monoecious or dioecious; stem often reddish at the base with brownish-green or purplish-brown branches.
Erect, woody herb or shrublet, up to 500 mm tall. Lateral branches modified to resemble pinnate leaves and subtended by scale-like cataphylls. Leaf blades usually suborbicular-obovate. Flowers white.
A herb or small shrub. It grows 50 cm tall. The side branches are modified to look like divided leaves. The flowers are white. The fruit are 1-2 mm across and have 3 lobes.
Seeds 0.8 × 0.6–0.7 mm, segmentiform, light brown, with 10–12 rows of minute tubercles on the dorsal facet, and 9–10 concentric rows of tubercles on each ventral facet.
Lead shoots and lateral shoots glabrous, scaberulous, papillose or evenly to densely whitish-puberulous, the hairs multicellular.
Male flowers in few-flowered fascicles, usually with 1 female flower per fascicle in the more distal axils of the lateral shoots.
Lateral leafy shoots (5)10–15(25) cm long, later co-axillary with short shoots and secondary lead shoots.
Fruit 1 × 2 mm, depressed 3-lobed to subglobose, smooth, pale green, sometimes reddish-tinged.
Scale leaves c. 2 mm long, linear-subulate; stipules c. 2.5 mm long, narrowly lanceolate.
