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Perennial plant, evergreen, dioecious, with woody, rigid, green stems, up to 1 m long, arising from a long-lived rhizome. Leaves minute membranous bracts, triangular to lanceolate, very small (4-10 mm). Phylloclades, a type of false leaf, 1-2 \u00d7 2-4 cm, born from leaf axils, ovate to oblong, finishing in a pointed tip; green, rigid and prickly. These phylloclades, which are nothing more than flattened branchlets with a leafy appearance, serve the function of true leaves. Flowers are born solitary or in pairs (rarely 3) in the centre of phylloclades, in the axil of a small whitish and membranous bract; perianth consists of 6 tepals, greenish-whitish, external ones elliptic, internal ones linear-lanceolate. Male flowers have 3 stamens fused at the filaments. Female flowers have a rounded or ovoid pistil. 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