Creeping shrub, dioecious, usually deciduous, up to 0.5 m in hight, glabrescent, with stems and branches woody, non-thorny, twisting. Leaves are usually glabrous, alternate (1-3.5 cm long), from lanceolate, to ovate, obovate, broadly oblanceolate, oval or suborbicular, acute (apex retuse or acuminate) or obtuse, with (4)5-8(10) pairs of lateral nerves more or less straight and parallel, with margin crenate, discolored with a bright green adaxial surface, sometimes glaucous, and lighter green abaxial surface. Petiole (2-7 mm), with promptly caducous stipules. Inflorescence in axillary cymose fascicles. Flowers yellow-greenish, pedicels 2-5 mm, generally unisexual; calyx campanular, with 4 glabrous sepals; petals 4, 0.5-1.5 mm in the male flowers and non-existent in the female ones, alternating between the sepals. The fruit is a slightly fleshy drupe, trasovate, 3-6 mm long, glabrous, with 2-3 furrows; Inside it contains 2-3 glossy brown seeds, with a groove non-thickened on the dorsal side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-43072","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n