Underground parts unknown. Plant glabrous. Stem very prickly at the base, the prickles 3-4 mm long, very tough to more or less woody, to 7 mm in diameter. Bulbils produced which when large are branched. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, from narrowly ovate to nearly orbicular, to 17 by 13 cm, 5-7-nerved; nerves somewhat prominent on the lower surface; petiole to 6 cm or half the length of the lamina. Male flowering axes collected together along leafless branches which may themselves branch again; the axes varying much in length, the flowers on them spaced at about twice their diameter apart. Buds not flattened at the base and directed obliquely forward, to rather more than 1 mm in length. Female plant unknown.
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