Underground parts unknown. Plant glabrous. Stem unarmed in the upper parts, wiry, terete. Bulbils none seen. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, broadly lanceolate, narrowed rather gradually into the acumination, base rounded, 8 by 2 cm, 5-nerved; reticulation rather prominent below; petiole short, only ½ cm long. Male flowering axes 1-3 in small fascicles in the axils of upper leaves or in the axils of bracts towards stem-ends, 5-10 cm long with over 60 flowers spaced more than their diameter apart; axis angled conspicuously. Buds elongated and directed obliquely forward, rather more than 1 mm long. Female plant unknown.
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