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Male flowers: pedicels c. 0.5 mm long, slender; sepals 6, 0.8–1 × 0.5 mm, obovate-oblong, rounded, cream-coloured with hyaline margins; disk glands 6, 0.1 mm in diameter, ovoid, smooth; stamens 3, filaments connate into a squat column 0.5 mm high, anthers 0.25 mm long, free, sessile, erect, 2-lobed, longitudinally dehiscent.
Seeds 1.3 × 1 × 0.9 mm, roundly trigonous-segmentiform, with a collar-like excrescence around the terminal hilum, shiny, warm chestnut-brown, with 30–40 fine longitudinal lines on the dorsal facet, and 20–30 concentric arcs on each ventral facet; transverse striae scarcely visible.
Leaf blades 3–8 × 1–3 mm, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, rounded to cuneate at the base, chartaceous, pseudopapillose beneath when dried, glaucous to pale grey-green, often reddish-tinged; lateral nerves in up to 9 pairs, mostly invisible.
A glabrous annual herb with a short erect terminal lead shoot up to 10 cm high and several decumbent or semi-prostrate secondary lead shoots arising from near the base and spreading to 15–20 cm, monoecious.
Foliage leaves distichous, with a few spiral at the lowest nodes of the lead shoots; petioles 0.3 mm long; stipules 1–1.5 mm long, narrowly linear-lanceolate, creamy-white, sometimes reddish at the apex.
Male flowers in small, few-flowered multibracteate cymules in the lower axils of the lateral shoots, female flowers solitary in the upper axils.
Scale leaves 1 mm long, subulate; stipules 1 × 0.5 mm, triangular-lanceolate, reddish-brown.
Fruit 2 × 3 mm, depressed-subglobose, smooth, pale yellow-green, drying brownish.
Lateral leafy shoots 2–10 cm long.
Stems red.
