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Information Stems sprawling or erect to ascending, branched from base or rarely simple, 0.5–7.5 dm; proximal branches mostly elongated and prostrate. Leaves alternate, except proximalmost; petiole 0.5–1.5 cm; blade green on both sides, oblong to lance-oblong or linear, 9–100 × 1–50 mm, base mostly rounded to tapering into petiole or more rarely broadly cuneate from hastate base, margin entire, apex acute or acuminate or more rarely obtuse, glabrous or nearly so. Flowers glomerate in rather loose, spiciform inflorescences; staminate ones 5-merous. Fruiting bracteoles darkening at maturity, sessile or stipitate, ovate or lance-oblong to orbiculate, (0.5–)4–10(–25) mm, distinct nearly to base, margin entire or rarely with 1–3 teeth, apex acuminate to acute, often bulging on both sides of impressed midnerve, at first mealy, finally glabrate. Seeds dimorphic: some black, convex, 1.5–2 mm wide, lustrous, others pale brown, flat, 1.7–3 mm wide; radicle inferior or subascending.

Information Stems sparsely branched, 3–8(–10) dm; branches very stout, obtusely angled, sparsely scurfy when young. Leaves mostly alternate; petiole (0.5–)1–2(–2.5) cm; blade bright green, oblong to lanceolate or hastate-lanceolate or -ovate, 20–90(–125) × 8–60(–70) mm, base rounded to cuneate, with proximal lobe often the largest and antrorse, margin entire or repand-denticulate, apex obtuse or acute, sparsely scurfy when young, becoming more slender and usually entire upwards. Flowers in short, dense, usually leafy, axillary or terminal spikes and in axillary glomerules, staminate ones 4-merous. Fruiting bracteoles sessile, oblong to ovate-orbiculate, or ovate to triangular, sometimes broader than long, 4–14 mm, united only at rounded base, margin entire or with (1 or)2 or more teeth, apex acute or acutish, or sometimes rounded, faces not appendaged, only apex foliaceous. Seeds dark brown (no black seeds observed), 2.8–3.5 mm broad; radicle inferior to subascending.