Underground parts unknown. Plant glabrous. Stem unarmed above and perhaps throughout, wiry. Bulbils none seen. Leaves herbaceous, opposite, broadly lanceolate, tapering to the apex so that they are scarcely acuminate, base rounded, 8 by 2 cm, 5-nerved; petiole to 3 cm or ⅓ the length of the blade. Male flowering axes solitary or sometimes in small fascicles in the upper leaf-axils, to 6 cm long with perhaps 30 flowers spaced about twice their own diameter apart; axis not quite straight, capillary, with ridges descending from the bracts. Buds with a rather broad base and a minute wart over the axis on the upper side, at maturity 1 mm long. Female flowering axes wiry, few-flowered. Capsules apparently not more than 5 on an infructescence, slightly retuse at the apex, nearly truncate at the base; wings 14-16 by 11 mm; stipe about 4 mm long.
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