Dioecious plant, perennial, with hardened stems only slightly lignified at the base, which can reach a subshrub, 0.5-1.5(2) m in height. All parts covered in a yellowish-white lanose indumentum. Leaves alternate, highly variable in shape and size (1.5-8 \u00d7 0.8-2.2 cm) obovate-oblong, those on flowering branches linear, tomentose and sessile or shortly petiolate. Inflorescence terminal, in the shape of a spike or branched at the base as in a panicle, sessile, cylindrical, dense, very long (up to 10 cm). Male plants with fewer inflorescences, in terminal leafless panicles. Bracts and bracteoles shorter than the perianth, ovate-deltoid, acute, densely lanose, persistent. Male flowers small, with a scarious perianth 1.5 to 2.3 mm, with 5 stamens, anthers longer than the filaments and a rudimentary pistil. Female plants with larger flowers, with scarious perianth consisting of 5 parts, 2 outer parts 2-3 mm, ovate-spatulate and 3 inner parts shorter and narrower. Ovary hemispherical with a thin style and 2 stigmas. It presents rudimentary stamens without anthers. Fruit a compressed capsule, 1 to 1.5 mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-11919","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n