Herbs or subshrubs, perennial, 0.3–2 m, glabrous; rootstock elongate, woody. Stems erect or clambering, branched from rootstock. Leaves: petiole 0.5–2 cm; blade unlobed, deltate, ovate, rhombic, to triangular-lanceolate, 3–7 × 1–4 cm, base abruptly narrowed, truncate, or oblique, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescences lax panicles of few terminal or axillary spikes, units less than 10 mm diam. Flowers: tepals greenish, greenish white, or pinkish green, striate, drying to tan, ± equal, 3.5–7 mm, rather rigid; style 1 mm; stigmas 3. Utricles 4–5 mm. Seeds to 20, 0.8–1 mm diam., faintly reticulate or smooth.
