A slender, climbing, or ascending, branched perennial herb, with round, green stem, the branches and branchlets very numerous, slender, spreading horizontally, forming fernlike sprays, with the upper internodes 1 to 2 millimeters long. Leaves (cladodes) are setaceous, very slender, 3 to 5 millimeters long, ascending or spreading, 6 to 12 in a fascicle. Flowers are small, perfect, solitary at the ends of the branches, with the pedicels very short and about 1-millimeter long. Perianth segments are about 2 millimeters long and are spreading. Berry 1-3-seeded, purple-black |
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