Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Subshrubs.

Stems: Stems erect to decumbent, 0.1–1.2 m long, pilose to villous, glabrate with age, flowering branches 1–1.5 mm in diameter.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite, distichous. Blades ovate to elliptic or rarely orbicular, 6–20 mm long, 5–12 mm wide. Apex rounded to obtuse, often retuse. Base obtuse, oblique. Surfaces glabrous. Margins serrate or rarely entire. Petioles 0.5–1.5 mm long, glabrous or pilose above. Stipules rounded–triangular, 0.5–1 mm long, pilose, erose.

Flowers: Flowers in cyathia solitary in the leaf axils, peduncles 0.5–1.5 mm long, glabrous. involucre campanulate, 1–1.5 mm high, 1.5–3 mm wide, glabrous below and pilose beneath the glands, glands 4–5, pilose. Flowers unisexual and highly reduced. Pistillate flowers solitary, on a gynophore; staminate flowers in 5 groups or cymules, each with 1 to several flowers. Calyx (sepals) absent. Corolla (petals) absent. Male flower reduced to a single stamen, with an articulation at junction of pedicel and filament, subtended by slender bracteoles. Ovary superior; styles bifid more than ½ their length, 0.3–0.6 mm long; stigma slightly thickened.

Fruit: Capsules 1.5–2 mm long; glabrous; gynophores recurved slightly; exserted 1–1.5 mm from involucre; pubescent. Seeds unknown.

Ploidy:

Habitat:

Elevation Range: 10–100 m.