shrubby; stems prostrate or decumbent, less often ascending, woody, 8 in. to 2 ft. long, more or less densely pilose with long reflexed hairs; leaves thinly to firmly membranous, long-petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, somewhat acutely acuminate, base deep-cordate, margin crenate or crenate-serrate, 1–3 in. long, 1/2–1 1/2 in. wide, thinly pilose on both surfaces with long hairs, especially on the nerves beneath, occasionally glabrescent above; petiole 1/2–2 in. long, pilose with spreading or somewhat reflexed hairs; stipules subulate or filiform, 1 1/2–2 lin. long. ciliate; inflorescences 1-sexual, monœcious, male lateral and female terminal on the same branch; male spikes axillary, solitary, narrow-cylindric, on slender peduncles beset with long-spreading hairs, up to 1/2 in. long, the spikes 1/4 in. (at length up to 3/4 in.) long, dense-flowered; male bracts minute, lanceolate; male buds almost glabrous; female spikes at the ends of twigs, sessile, solitary, oblong, up to 3/4 in. long, 1/4 in. across; bracts 1–2-flowered, more or less oblong, deeply 6–7-lobed, under 1/4 in. across; lobes subulate or lanceolate, acute, up to 1 lin. long, setosely long-ciliate, with or without a few stalked glands on their margins towards the base, rarely with glands and hairs on the inner side; sepals 3, lanceolate, subacute; ovary 3-lobed, pilose in the upper half, with or without stipitate glands intermixed; styles 3, slender, about 1/4 in. long, laciniate; seeds subglobose, with a large hilum. null
