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Female flowers: pedicels 0.5 mm long, extending to c. 2 mm in fruit, slender, sometimes scaberulous; sepals ± as in the male, but with a broader reddish-green midrib; disk 0.5 mm in diameter, annular, flat, thin, entire; ovary 0.5 mm in diameter, sessile, 3-lobed to subglobose, ± smooth; styles 3, 0.25 mm long, ± free, spreading, bifid, stigmas straight.
Male flowers: pedicels c. 1 mm long, capillary; sepals 5, 0.6–0.8 × 0.5–0.6 mm, ovate-suborbicular, somewhat mucronulate, cream-coloured with a thin pinkish midrib; disk glands 5, minute, free, flat, smooth, transversely ovate, ± truncate; stamens 5, free, filaments 0.2 mm long, erect, anthers 0.2 mm across, horizontal, transversely dehiscent.
Seeds 0.8 × 0.7 × 0.6 mm, segmentiform, light brown, with 6–8 rows of minute slightly darker tubercles connected by a lattice of ridges on the dorsal facet, and 5–6 concentric rows on each ventral facet.
Annual herb, up to 250 mm tall. Branchlets and often leaves on both sides finely scabrid-puberulous, branchlets crowded. Leaves ovate-elliptic, appressed. Flowers creamy red.
Fruit 1 × 2 mm, depressed3-lobed to subglobose, ± smooth or minutely scaberulous-papillose, pale green, often reddish-tinged.
Scale leaves c. 1 mm long, subulate-filiform; stipules c. 1 mm long, narrowly triangular-lanceolate.
Flowers commonly in few-flowered bisexual cymes, with 1 male and 1 female flower per axil.
An erect, often much-branched, annual to subperennial herb to c. 50 cm tall, monoecious.
Lead shoots ± smooth, lateral shoots smooth or finely scabrid to papillose-puberulous.
Lateral leafy shoots up to 27 cm long, but most often c. 5–10 cm long.
