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Hemiparasitic, dioecious shrublet, 0.3-0.5 m high. Leaves alternate, scale-like. Inflorescence a slender, terminal spike of solitary, or 2-or 3-flowered, bracteolate cymules. Flowers unisexual. Male flowers hypocrateriform; perianth lobes 4 or 5; stamens 4, anthers small; ovary and style rudimentary or absent. Female flowers with perianth tube shortly campanulate, lobes 4(5); disc obscure; staminodes rarely present; ovules 2 or 3, pendulous from apex of a central, straight or folded, filiform placenta; style short; stigma obscurely 2-or 3-lobed. Flowering time all year. Fruit a globose, 5-ribbed nut, conspicuously reticulated; fleshy basal ring crowned by persistent perianth; endocarp crustaceous; embryo terete in centre of fleshy albumen.
Dioecious, brittle, hemiparasitic shrublet, up to 500 mm tall, often yellowish. Leaves and bracts adpressed, scale-like, shorter than flowers, lower leaves occasionally longer and spreading. Flowers in spikes, greenish. Fruits whitish with orange calyx. Year-round.
Dioecious, brittle, hemiparasitic shrublet to 50 cm, often yellowish. Leaves and bracts adpressed, scale-like, shorter than flowers, lower leaves sometimes longer and spreading. Flowers in spikes, greenish. Fruits whitish with orange calyx.
