Plant: Shrub or subshrub, < 1 m, dioecious; hairs stellate, scale-like; stems generally erect

Leaves: simple, cauline, alternate; petiole 1-4 cm; blade 2-8.5 cm, narrowly elliptic to linear-oblong, tip rounded to obtuse, margin entire; hairs generally stellate

INFLORESCENCE: raceme

Flowers: Staminate flower: pedicels 1-5.5(7) mm; sepals generally 5; petals 0; stamens 10-15, filaments hairy, free, bent inward in bud; nectar disk generally divided; Pistillate flower: pedicel < 2 mm, 4-7 mm in fruit; sepals 5, ± 2 mm, entire; petals generally 0; nectar disk entire; ovary 3-chambered, styles 2-lobed, lobes 2-forked

Fruit: capsule; spheric or 3-lobed, smooth or tubercled; Seed 6.5-7 mm, smooth, 1 per chamber; scar appendaged

Misc: Sand dunes; < 100 m.; Mar-May