Description: Undershrubs, c. 50 cm tall, stem with dense groups of stipules and scars of branches; cauliflorous. Stipules triangular, 2.2–3.5 x 2–3.5 mm, stiff, recurved, breaking off. Leaves ovate to triangular, 3.7–7.3 x 2.6–4.6 cm, papery, base truncate, margin flat to recurved, apex acute, often mucronulate, venation visible above, nerves 9–11. Inflorescences single or groups of racemes, up to 11 cm long, with per node several staminate and one pistillate flower. Flowers reddish brown to dark purple; stamens androphore c. 0.3 mm tall; ovary widely bell-shaped, 0.8–1 x 1.1–1.7 mm; styles horizontal. Fruits unknown. |
