Shrubs or subherbaceous from a woody rootstock, spreading or erect to 1.5 m. Leaves membranous, alternate or subverticillate; petiole to 5 mm long; stipules obsolete; blade elliptic, 3-5.5 cm long, 1-2.2 cm wide, the base acute with 2 cyathi-form glands, the margin serrulate, the apex acute. Inflorescence to 7 cm long. Staminate flowers sessile in 3-5-flowered cymules, subtending bracts elliptic; calyx ca 1 mm long. Pistillate flowers sessile; sepals narrowly elliptic, ca 3 mm long; styles ca 3 mm long. Capsules obovoid, shallowly 3-lobed, to 1.8 cm diam, the lobes of gynobase 3-9 mm long; seed subspherical, ca 6 mm diam, smooth, shiny, the caruncle small.
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