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Low
shrub with divaricate branches and dimorphic shoots; leaves minute,
short-petiolate, toothed, mostly clustered on short lateral branches;
staminate spikes and individual pistillate flowers/fruits borne
among the leaves of short lateral shoots; pistillate flowers and
fruits enclosed in leaf-like bracts
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