Erect herb, 6-33 cm high, sometimes somewhat ascending, mostly branched, but often one of the twigs at a ramification broken off. Roots filiform, c. 0.2-0.3 (-1) mm in CS, with hairs. Stem glabrous, c. 0.3-1.5 mm in CS, internodes c. 5-50 mm long. Leaves oblong to ovate, acute, c. 1.5-3 (-4) by c. 0.5-1.5 (-2) mm, sometimes semi-amplexicaul, appressed or patent to 25°. Raceme c. 0.5-19 cm long. Flowers c. 3-35, more or less all around. Bracts oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, scale-like, c. 1-3 (-4) by c. 0.3-0.7 (-1) mm, appressed to the pedicel, or sometimes patent to 10°. Pedicels c. 1-5 (-6) by c. 0.1-0.3 (-0.5) mm in CS, patent at c. (30-) 45-90°, mostly straight, sometimes very slightly recurved. ♂ Flowers: perianth segments 4, or 6 or 7, rarely 5 or 8, equal, patent, long-triangular, acute, c. 1.5-5 by c. 0.2-0.6 (-2.2) mm, sometimes at about halfway contracted into a long narrow point, apex glabrous. Stamens 2-3, c. 0.5-0.6 mm; filaments very short (stamens almost sessile); anthers 4-celled, 4-lobed. ♀ Flowers: perianth segments (4-) 5-10, patent, equal, c. 2.8 by c. 0.3-0.7 (-1) mm, oblong to lanceolate, often at about halfway contracted into an awl-shaped point, apex glabrous. Carpels c. 20-80, obovoid, c. 0.35-0.6 (-0.8) mm long, the upper half with many tubercles; style club-shaped, inserted laterally at the base or about halfway, the apex with many hairs and papillae.
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Stems usually simple, 4-12 cm tall including inflorescences. Scalelike leaves ovate-lanceolate, 2-4 mm, apex mucronate or retuse. Inflorescences short, 3-9-flowered. Plants monoecious. Pedicels slightly curved upward; bracts 1-3 mm. Perianth segments 6, subulate, 2-3 mm. Stamens 2 or 3, sessile. Carpels club-shaped and attenuate toward base when mature; styles subbasal, club-shaped.
Plant of (damp rocky) rain-forest, often on rocky terrain, sometimes dominated by Pandanus or Agathis, on limestone hills but also known from ke-rangas forest, 15-1250 m. Fl. July-Feb.
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