Perennial with a number of erect shoots from slender woody rhizomes, up to 2 dm. tall.. Stems glabrous or pubescent, glabrescent.. Leaves shortly petiolate, simple; blade elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic, up to 8.5 cm. long, 1.3–3 cm. wide, subacute to rounded, mucronate at the apex, narrowed to the base, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs on both surfaces towards the base; petiole up to 3 mm. long.. Inflorescence a short terminal few-flowered subcorymbose raceme, up to 3 cm. long.. Sepals 8–8.5 mm. long, sparsely hairy outside with the margins densely puberulous; receptacle up to 4 mm. long; disk 4-lobed, up to 1.5 mm. long.. Petals obovate-elliptic, 5–8 mm. long, white or greenish.. Stamens ± 30; filaments up to 20–25 mm. long, white with a green base.. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous.. Fruits narrowly cylindrical, up to 2.5 cm. long, slightly torulose, glabrous.
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