Leaves thin, green when dry, tapering at both ends, large, up to 24 cm; secondary nerves bent, joining, 6 Inflorescences erect, simple or once branched, slender; spike 2 cm long. ♂ Flowers short, 1½ mm. Sterile ♀ flowers 6-10 in each collar, ovate, low. ♀ Inflorescences erect, simple; spike 4 cm long; collars very close to each other. ♀ Flowers 6-10, fusiform, 2 mm long, tube of innermost envelop 2 mm exserted. Fruits in a dense spike, 2 cm long, elliptic, acute, furrowed lengthwise, their outer envelop comparatively thin, fibrous, middle one ribbed, hard but also thin. Seed apiculate.
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A slender climber. The leaves are up to 24 cm long. The flowers are in simple erect spikes. These are 2-4 cm long. The fruit are oval and like nuts. They are 2 cm long. They have furrows along them.
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