Monoecious shrub, up to 1-1.50 m in height, upright-hemispherical bearing in drier places, with sparse foliage. Stems ramose almost from the base. Bark is brown in older stems and branches and green or reddish on young branchlets. Leaves (25-70 \u00d7 5-20 mm), loosely arranged (concentrating only slightly at the end of the branchlets), lanceolate, oblong or obovate, obtuse or slightly acute, with entire margin and gently undulate, glabrous, with a slightly lighter green on the underside. Pleiochasium with 3-5 bifurcated rays. Dichasial bracts ellipsoid or broadly obovate, greenish. Pleiochasial bracts similar, but sometimes almost twice the size, more like leaves. Male and female flowers appear together in a cyathium. Cyathia 2.5-4 mm, subsessile or shortly pedunculate. Nectaries reddish. Fruit a globose capsule, 4-5.2 \u00d7 4.2-5.5 mm, with grooves between shallow cocci. Surface of the cocci covered by numerous warts. Seed (3 \u00d7 2 \u00d7 1.7 mm) oblong to ovoid, slightly compressed, with a smooth surface and generally brown, carunculate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12162","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n