Shrub up to 100 cm in height, gynodioecious (some plants with female flowers and others with hermaphrodite flowers). Older stems glabrescent and without leaves. Young stems covered by greyish lanate hairs. Leaves \u00b1 appressed-imbricated at the end of young stems, patent immediately after distancing from the end of the branch; 3.5-6 \u00d7 1-2.5 mm, from ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, subacute, flat, sessile, herbaceous, persistent, lanuginous on both sides. Inflorescences in glomeruli, with 7-10 flowers, ebracteate, at the end of short branches. Flowers hermaphrodite and female, rarely male; hermaphrodite flowers 5.5-7 mm, \u00b1 tubular; female flowers 3-4 mm, \u00b1 ovoid; yellow (turning pink-brownish after maturity); hypanthium with lanate hairs; sepals 1.5-2 mm, ovate, obtuse, the overlapping pair of sepals with a partial indumentum on their inner face. Anthers orange. Style subapical. Fruit nuciform, included in the hypanthium, with pericarp membranous and with an indumentum. Seeds 1.3-1.4 \u00d7 2.2-2.4 mm, \u00b1 pyriform, with a curved apex and a prominent chalaza, without an aril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13116","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n