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Information Leafless dioecious relatively large but delicate shrubs, older plants forming long pendulous masses to 2 m.; internodes of distal branches flattened and narrowed, 20–30 mm. long, 1–2 mm. wide. Bracteal cups sessile, short, less than 1 mm. long, often obscured by the subtending leaf-scales. Staminate flowers mostly borne singly, occasionally in dyads or triads, sessile. Pistillate flowers borne singly. Style not evident; stigma somewhat expanded at the summit of the ovary that is gradually elevated from the margin of the tepalar scars. Berries on 1 mm. long pedicels, ellipsoid, 4 mm. high, smooth, orange; tepalar ring-scar 2 mm. in diameter. Fig. 5/6–7 (p. 20).

Information Leafless dioecious shrubs of variable size from under 0.5 m. to more than 1 m. long, larger plants mostly pendulous with age; internodes of distal branches 15–25 mm. long, 2–3(–4) mm. wide, flattened. Bracteal cups of both staminate and pistillate flowers sessile, short, less than 1 mm. long, often obscured by the scale-leaves and sometimes apparently absent or deciduous. Staminate flowers borne mostly singly, but sometimes in dyads or triads. Pistillate flowers borne singly. Style minute but distinct, less than 0.5 mm. long; stigma rounded and only slightly expanded. Berries on 1–1.5 mm. long pedicels, orbicular to ovoid-ellipsoid, 3–5 mm. high, smooth, orange; tepalar ring-scar 1.5–2 mm. in diameter. Fig. 5/9 (p. 20).