Leafy dioecious mostly erect plants ± 50 cm. high, sometimes pendulous with age, dark green; internodes of distal branches rounded, often ridged, 20–40 mm. long, 2 mm. wide.. Leaves elliptic-ovate, 2–4 cm. long, 1–2.5 cm. wide, apically rounded-obtuse, basally cuneate, faintly 3–5-nerved; petiole indistinct, 2–3 mm. long.. Bracteal cup shortly pedunculate, 2–3 mm. long.. Staminate flowers elongate, subsessile, in dyads or triads.. Pistillate flowers primarily in triads, subsessile.. Style cylindric, 1 mm. long; stigma not expanded.. Berries subsessile, ovoid, 5 mm. high, densely but minutely tuberculate over entire surface, dull pinkish brown; tepalar ring-scar 3.5 mm. in diameter.. Fig. 3/7–8 (p. 8).
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