Succulent annual or short-lived perennial herb to 20 cm tall. Leaves sometimes reddish, crowded, to 1.25 cm long, obovate, entire, 1-veined. Flowers in small clusters in summer. The anthers of this species 'explode' producing yellow puffs of pollen-hence the common name.
Mexico to Brazil
Source: (1997). Urticaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
