Plant slender, pendulous, 30-60 cm long. Stems with rudimentary leaves predominant on each growth segment; internodes terete, 15-60 mm long, 0.3-2 mm in diam. Leaves usually rudimentary, sometimes normally developed without regular pattern; normally developed leaves lanceolate, attenuate at the base to an obscure petiole 1-3 mm long, attenuate and finally shortly rounded at the apex, obscurely 3-nerved, 30-50 by 5-10 mm; rudimentary leaves 0.5-0.8 mm high. Inflorescences commonly axillary, sometimes terminal, solitary, 1.5-3 mm long, a spike of 2-3(-4) pairs of single flowers; internodes 0.6-1.2 mm long; bracteal cup c. 0.5 mm long, spreading. Fruit narrowly ellipsoid, smooth, red. Fig. 1b, c.
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