Shrub, usually monoecious, up to 1 (1.6) m. Trunk promptly branched, sometimes from the base, often giving the plant a hemispheric shape; rarely the trunk is branched above several decimetres, resembling a miniature tree. Branches thickened (12-30 mm in diameter). Brownish bark on older stems and branches, grey-brown to reddish in younger parts. This species has characteristic acute terminal buds. The upper branches are 2-10(15) cm long, succulent. Stem leaves 14.1\u201344.9(50) \u00d7 2.9\u201310(12) mm, lanceolate to acute, with non-wavy margin, slightly mucronate (0.3\u20130.6mm long) or without mucron, subsessile, grouped at the terminal end of the twigs, very quickly deciduous. Inflorescence with a single cyathium with bracts similar to the leaves, but slightly smaller. Cyathium (2-3.5 \u00d7 3.5 mm) dioecious, with a very short peduncle; nectaries suborbicular, entire, not appendiculate, yellow. Male cyatius without ovary or with ovary but very rudimentary. Fruit a subglobose capsule (7-9 \u00d7 8-11 mm), almost sessile, with very short peduncle (0.5-1.5 mm), with cocci poorly defined, covered with a dense pubescence that is lost when mature. Each coccus carries 1 seed (3-3.5(4) \u00d7 2.5-3 \u00d7 2.7-3 mm) oval-subglobose, with a smooth surface, reddish-yellowish, without caruncula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12171","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n