Galopina aspera (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Walp.

Perennial herb, single-to several-stemmed, ('male'), ('bisexual'), ('bisexual') ± ('female'), ('female') or occasionally ('male') ± ('bisexual') ± ('female') or (very rarely) ('male') ± ('female'). Stems (0.3-)0.5-1 ,2(-1 ,4) m long, ± erect to ascending, mostly unbranched, usually shortly hairy; often with contracted short shoots bearing relatively large leaves. Leaves: blades (25-)30-45(-50) x (8-)12-25(-30) mm, ovate, elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, ± cuneate or ± truncate at base, subacute to obtuse at apex, both surfaces (particularly midrib and prominent lateral veins) ± densely covered with very short whitish to yellowish spreading hairs or seldom ± papillate or subglabrous; petioles 0.5-2(-3) mm long; stipular sheath with 5 or 3(-4)setae, the longest c. 3-4(-4.5) mm. Inflorescence ± narrowly cylindrical, c. (80-)150-300(-380) x (20-)40-80(-100) mm; peduncles and pedicels thin but stiff, hairy to subglabrous, not conspicuously divergent in fruit, peduncles elongating to c. (1.5-)2.5-5(-6) mm, pedicels to (0.8-)1-2(-3) mm. Flowers: corolla greenish, greenish yellow, purplish or brownish red tinged, often densely papillate outside, ('male'), ('bisexual'): tube(0.1-)0.2-0.5 mm long, lobes 1-1.5(-1.6) x (0.4-)0.5-0.6(-0.7) mm; anthers (0.5-)0.7-1.1(-1.2) mm long ('female'): tube 0-0.2 mm long, lobes (0.5-)0.6-1 x (0.1-)0.2-0.4 mm; stigmas (2-)2.5-4(-4.5) mm long; ovary c. 1-1.5 x 0.8-1 mm, densely tuberculate. Fruit brownish; each mericarp 1.5-2 x (0.7-)1-1.2(-1.5) mm, conspicuously and densely warty-tuberculate.