An erect monoecious pubescent little-branched perennial herb up to 50 cm., without stinging hairs.. Petiole 3–5 mm. long; blade ovate or elliptic-ovate, 1.5–3 cm. long, 0.5–1.5 cm. wide, subacute, truncate, serrate, the teeth each being 1 mm. long, membranaceous, 5-nerved from the base, lateral nerves 4–6 pairs, not prominent above, slightly so beneath, evenly pubescent above and beneath.. Stipules lanceolate, 3 mm. long, pubescent without, glabrous within.. Inflorescences leaf-opposed, 3–4 cm. long, the peduncles 2 cm. long, mostly ♂ with 2–3 ♀ flowers at the base; axis densely pubescent; ♂ bracts elliptic, 2 mm. long, acute, entire, ciliate, 1-flowered; bracteoles narrowly lanceolate, 1 mm. long; female bracts elliptic-ovate, 3–4 mm. long, otherwise as in ♂; bracteoles 2 mm. long.. Male flowers: pedicels 0.5 mm. long, pubescent; buds ovoid; calyx-lobes broadly ovate, 1 mm. long, cucullate, glabrous; stamens 0.5 mm. long, filaments slender, shorter than the anthers; pistillode 0.. Female flowers: pedicels 1 mm. long, pubescent; calyx-lobes 6, 1.5 mm. long, ovate in outline, with 3–4 lateral, linear, pubescent lobules on each side; ovary trilobate, 2 mm. diameter, densely pubescent; styles 3, 2 mm. long, united for half their length, glabrous or subglabrous, the stigmas strongly recurved, ± smooth, hirtellous.. Fruit and seeds not known.
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