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Erect or ascending perennial herb up to 1 m high, sometimes scrambling, often with slender shoots from a woody base, up to 50 mm in diameter. Stems often rooting at lower nodes, with long, dense, patent, often pale golden yellow hairs, glabrescent. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, 60-125 x 40-70 mm, apical tooth longer than broad, base broadly cuneate, margin with 10-23 pairs of teeth, both surfaces with fairly dense scattered hairs, these denser on veins of lower surface; petiole slender, (20-)40-80 mm long, densely patent-hairy; stipules prominent, lanceolate, 5-10 x 1.5-3.0 mm, membranous, persistent, apex attenuate and recurved, base sessile and cordate, with long hairs on margin and midrib. Female flowers hairy, ±2 mm long. Male flowers with perianth deeply 4-lobed, acuminate, hairy, ±2.5 mm long. Achenes fusiform, 1.5-2.5 mm long, enclosed in hairy accrescent perianth; seed pale cream, smooth, glistening.
Perennial herb, 0.45-1.00 m high. Leaves alternate, lanceolate to ovate, up to 125 x 70 mm, both surfaces with scattered hairs, base cuneate, apex tooth longer than broad, margins serrate; petioles slender, up to 80 mm long; stipules lanceolate, persistent, up to 10 x 3 mm. Flowers either in axils of unmodified leaves or subtended by reduced, bractlike leaves; each flower subtended by a triangular, chaffy, reddish bract. Female flowers pubescent, ± 2 mm long, with tubular perianth constricted below stigma. Male flowers with perianth deeply 4-lobed, acuminate, pubescent, ± 2.5 mm long. Flowering time Feb. Fruit fusiform achenes, up to 2.5 mm long. Seeds pale cream-coloured, smooth.
A scrambling herb or shrub. It grows 1 m tall from a woody rhizome or underground stem. It is hairy on stems and leaves. The leaf stalks are slender. They are 6 cm long. The leaf blades are oval and narrow towards the tip. There are teeth along the edge. The leaves are 13 cm long by 6 cm wide. The flowers are in dense clusters. They are in the axils of leaves.
Leaves alternate, 4–8(10) x 3–5 cm., ovate to lanceolate; apex acuminate; base cuneate, rounded, or subcordate; margin coarsely serrate; upper surface of lamina with scattered, stiff hairs and punctiform cystoliths, lower surface glabrescent with softer hairs on the nerves.
Stems erect or ascending sometimes scrambling, up to c. 1 m. tall, slightly woody at the base, up to c. 5 cm. in diam., covered by a dense indumentum of short, erect hairs, bark greyish brown; ± prostrate stems often rooting at the nodes.
Female flowers fewer, sessile; perianth c. 2 mm. long, with 10 faint longitudinal lines; ovary enclosed, stigma erect, 2–4 mm. long, filiform, exserted.
Erect or ascending perennial herb, up to 1 m high. Leaves with dentate margins, not felted below. Flowers (perianth) green.
Male flowers numerous, pedicels c. 1.5 mm. long; perianth globose, c. 1 mm. in diam., 3–4-merous, vestigial ovary present.
Inflorescences of densely clustered flowers in the axils of the upper leaves, bracts narrowly triangular.
Achene c. 2.5 mm. long, shiny, white, enclosed in the persistent perianth.
Stipules lanceolate, up to 7 mm. long.
Petiole pubescent, up to 7 cm. long.
Perennial herb from a woody rhizome.
