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Stem repent, at length erect and usually with several erect or ascending branches, brownish-pubescent; leaves usually massed at the end of the stem or branches, wanting or much reduced below, broadly ovate, up to 7 cm. long and 6 cm. wide, petiolate, usually coarsely crenate-serrate, often ciliate, sparingly strigillose with hyaline hairs or rarely glabrous above, hirsutulous beneath on the nerves and veins, the cystoliths linear and fusiform above, obscure beneath; plants monoecious or occasionally dioecious, the flowers in dense globose clusters forming a panicle up to 7 cm. long, slender-peduncled, the panicles usually androgynous with relatively few staminate flowers, the achenes minute, scarcely 0.5 mm. long.
