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Leafless, dioecious shrub, up to 1 m high, parasitic on species of Acacia and Combretum. Internodes 15-25 mm long. Berries warted when young, pedicel 1-2 mm long. Flowers yellowish green.
Leafless, dioecious shrubs of moderate size, 0.5–1 m high, generally densely and intricately branched, often pale green; internodes of distal branches 15–25 × 1–2 mm, rounded.
Berries pedicellate (1–2 mm), pale yellow-orange, 5–6 mm high, rotund, when immature densely tuberculed, at maturity faintly tuberculed to nearly smooth.
Both staminate and pistillate flowers also borne adventitiously and singly, or in groups of 2–3 at the nodes without subtending bracteal cups.
Ring scar left by perianth not strongly evident, 2.5–3 mm in diameter.
Style scarcely evident; stigma only slightly expanded.
Staminate flowers in triads (sometimes dyads).
Bracteal cups of both sexes sessile.
Pistillate flowers borne singly.
