Plants 25--50 cm tall. Rhizome creeping, tuberous-moniliform, ca. 1 cm thick, stout. Stem glabrous or distally pilose. Leaves 4--9; petiole 1--2.5 cm, glabrous or pilose; leaf blade oblong to ovate-lanceolate, 8--17 × 3--6.5 cm, base rounded or subcordate, margin sometimes ciliate, apex cuspidate-caudate. Inflorescence a panicle; rachis zigzagged or straight, sometimes with spreading, stiff hairs. Flowers solitary; pedicel 4--8(--13) mm. Perianth rose; segments nearly free, subelliptic, 3--4 × 2--3 mm. Filaments subdeltoid, ca. 1 mm, flat; anthers small. Ovary 1.5--2 mm, 3--4 × as long as style. Style very short. Berries red at maturity, 5--8 mm in diam., 1--3-seeded. Fl. May--Jul, fr. Sep--Nov. 2 n = 28, 36, 54*, 66, 72.
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