Monoecious. Flowers 1.5–2 mm long, 1.2–1.5 mm diam. (2–2.4 mm diam. cited by Thiele et al. 2008), fleshy. Bracts 12–15, in three whorls (triseriate), suborbicular to ovate, concave, reddish orange, broad and fleshy at base, gradually thinning towards brownish orange apex. Tepals 4 or 5, oblong to narrowly obovate, truncate or praemorse, shortly attenuate at base, pale pink; apex brownish orange. Gynandroecial column cylindrical, pink. Anthers biseriate, contiguous under margin of apical disc. Ovary half-inferior, globose, lemon-yellow; stigma ring-shaped on margin of apical disc. Berry globose to depressed-globose, 2–3 mm diam., exposed within the bracts.
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