Herbs, rhizomatous. Rhizomes creeping, 4-7.5 mm in diam.; internodes 3.5-5 mm. Leaves all basal; stipules triangular or narrowly triangular; petiole 5-20 cm; blade all green, broadly ovate to suborbicular, 5-11 × 4-8.5 cm, subleathery, nearly flat, adaxially subglabrous, basally 5-or 6-veined, base shallowly cordate, apex shortly acuminate or acute. Inflorescences a dichasial cyme with 5-15 flowers; staminate flowers 3-11, pistillate flowers 1-4; bracts lanceolate, ligulate, or oblong. Staminate flowers: pedicel 8-30 mm, glabrous; tepals 4, outer 2 white or pinkish, suborbicular; inner 2 tepals white, oblong; androecium zygomorphic, subglobose; stamens 15-40, golf-club-shaped; anthers oblong-obovoid, apex subemarginate. Pistillate flowers: pedicel 6.5-13 mm, bracteole absent; tepals 3, outer 2 tepals white or pinkish, suborbicular; inner tepals white, oblong or narrowly obovate; ovary obovoid-ellipsoid, 3-winged, 1-loculed with parietal placentation; styles 3; Capsule nodding, 10-12 × 4.5-5.5 mm. Fl. Nov-Dec.
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