Leafless, dioecious, aerial, hemiparasitic shrub, 1.0-1.5 m high, often pendulous with age, usually pale green; stems rounded. Leaf scales adhering to stem, with whitish margins. Staminate flowers in triads, or borne in dyads or singly at nodes without bracteal cups. Pistillate flowers solitary in bracteal cups in axils of leaf scales. Flowering time July, Aug. Fruit a stalked, ovoid-ellipsoid berry, pale yellow, smooth; style persistent.
Dioecious, stem parasite, up to 1 m tall, leafless, internodes of distal branches (10-)15-25 x 1(-2) mm, younger shoots half as wide as older stems. Inflorescence unisexual. Berry smooth, pale yellow, on a stout pedicel.
Dioecious stem parasite to 1 m, leafless. Inflorescences unisexual. Berries pedicellate, smooth, pale yellow.
A shrub that grows attached to other plants.