Monoecious shrub, up to 2 m in height, with a straight trunk, short, first smooth, later with abundant extended-erect branching, divaricate or erect, giving it the overall appearance of a minute umbrella-like tree. Bark whitish-pruinose, smooth, slightly fissured at the base of the trunk of older specimens. Young branchlets greenish. Leaves (15-70 \u00d7 7.3 mm) grouped at the end of the branchlets, linear or linear-spatulate, obtuse, with rounded or emarginate apex, entire margin, not undulated. Pleiochasium subsessile or with a short petiole, with 3-5 rays, bifurcated, simple, the same length or slightly longer than the pleiochasial bracts. Bracts like the leaves, but generally shorter and wider, yellowish. Dichasial bracts 5-15 mm, sessile, oval-oblong or suborbicular, yellowish. Cyathium 3-5 mm, with short peduncle, glabrous on the outside and downy on the inside, yellow; nectaries appendiculate, yellow. Fruit a subglobose capsule (4.5 \u00d7 6.5 mm) with pedicel 3-6 mm. Cocci well defined, glabrous, smooth or very finely punctate-papillose. Each coccus carries 1 seed (2.7-3 \u00d7 1.7-2 \u00d7 2-2.2 mm) oval-oblong, sometimes slightly compressed laterally, surface almost smooth or finely rugulose, brown in colour, \u00b1 dark, carunculate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12153","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n