Stem glabrous, golden-greenish (dried), 0.2–0.6 mm thick. Inflorescence usually a single loose spike, 10–15 or more-flowered, conspicuously spirally arranged, developing acropetally; peduncle 8–23 mm long, thickest (c. 0.5 mm) near centre. Floral bracts whorled; bract triangular c. 0.7 × 0.3 mm, acute, glabrous, yellow, translucent; bracteoles similar, narrower than sepals, c. 0.5 mm long. Flowers globular, c. 0.7 mm diam., sessile. Sepals triangular-ovate, 0.3–0.4 × 0.2–0.3 mm, yellow, translucent. Petals ovate, mucronulate, incurved to hooded, to c. 0.6 mm long and wide, golden-brown (dried), darker than sepals. Fertile stamens 9, c. 0.5 mm long, white, turning brown. Staminodes triangular-pyramidal, c. 0.2 × 0.1 mm, brown (dried); gland ovoid, c. 0.1 mm long, brown (dried). Ovary fusiform, c. 0.5 × 0.2 mm, yellow, translucent (dried). Receptacular tube glabrous outside and inside. Fruit not seen.
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