Shrubs, branching from persistent woody base 0.5-2 dm; stems 1-5 dm. Leaves 13-80 × 15-42 mm. Staminate flowers with perianth cleft to middle or below, 1.5-1.8 mm. Pistillate flowers few, intermixed in otherwise staminate spikes; bracteoles laterally or vertically compressed, with vertical or horizontal achenes respectively, when mature either laterally flattened, 2(-4)-winged, 3.4-9 mm diam., or dorsiventrally compressed and not or 1-4(-5)-ribbed and 2-winged, (1.8-)2-2.5 mm diam. Achenes included within bracts, 1.2-2.2 × 1.2-2.2 mm.
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