Short-lived perennial subshrub to c. 40 cm high, monoecious. Leaves petiolate, rhombic to orbicular 6–35 mm long, 3–25 mm wide, entire or toothed, mealy grey-green or silvery. Male flowers in small dense clusters in upper leaf axils, female flowers solitary or in few-flowered clusters in lower axils. Fruiting bracteoles united for greater part, much or barely inflated, c. 1 cm long and wide, weakly or strongly winged, the free apices protruding as a beak 1–2 mm long.
