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Female flower: (12)17–19 × 4–6(8) mm. (incl. the 4–5(6) mm. long stipe), tubular-infundibuliform; hypanthium c. 1·5 mm. long; calyx-tube 5–6 mm. long; calyx-lobes 3·5–5 mm. long, oblong, obtuse, subentire; petals (4)5–6 × 1–1·5(2) mm., obovate to oblanceolate, obtuse, (1)3-nerved, finely fimbriate in the upper 1/2, inserted at the same level as the corona, this consisting of hairs 1–1·5 mm. long; staminodes c. 4 mm. long, with the filaments shortly connate at the base and vestigial anthers c. 1 mm. long; disk-glands c. 0·5 mm. long; pistil 7–8 mm. long; gynophore 1–1·5 mm. long; ovary c. 4 × 2 mm., ellipsoid-oblong; styles connate at the base, with the arms 1–1·5 mm. long, ending in subglobular woolly-papillate stigmas.
Leaf-lamina 7–14 × 5–12 cm., broadly ovate to subcircular, broadly rounded and sometimes minutely apiculate at the apex, margin entire, broadly rounded and shortly cuneate at the base, subcoriaceous, brownish-or reddish-green or greyish-green above, paler, greyish-green and densely purplish-red mottled beneath, with (3)5(7) main nerves from the base and with 3–4(7) pairs of nerves from the midrib and distinct reticulation; petiole 0·1–0·4 cm. long.
Cymes 1–10-flowered in male, hermaphrodite and female, the flowers cream; peduncle up to 0·4 cm. long; bracts and bracteoles 1·5–3·5 mm. long, narrowly triangular to linear, acute, denticulate; pedicels 2–5 mm. long in the hermaphrodite and female flower.
Male flower: buds up to 10 mm. long; anthers as in the hermaphrodite flower, 3–3·5 mm. long incl. the blunt, papillate apiculum c. 1 mm. long; vestigial ovary 1–1·5 mm. long.
Glands of the lamina-base 0 or 2, 0·5–1 mm. in diameter, on the margin near the insertion of the petiole; glands of the lamina 0.
Stems annual or partly perennial, 1–3 cm. long, with internodes 0·2–1 cm. long; leaves ± appressed to the ground.
Capsule 1·5–2·5 × 1 cm., obovoid-oblong, subacute at the apex, with smooth coriaceous pericarp.
Stipules 2–4 mm. long, narrowly triangular, acute, entire or remotely dentate or dissected.
Herb 5–10 cm. high, with napiform warty tuber.
Seeds unknown.
Tendrils 0.
