Indumentum dense, cream to greenish gold or light pinkish brown, becoming dull with age and soon disappearing from vegetative parts. Stem prophylls and cataphylls narrow, acute, up to 0.5 mm long, appressed, apparently deciduous. Leaf lamina ovate to broadly ovate or broadly elliptic, 1.5—3(—4) by 1.2—1.5(—2) cm, attenuate or cuneate at the base to a petiole c. 5 mm long, shortly attenuate and rounded or rarely acute or obtuse at the apex. Inflorescence an indeterminate spike of 7-10 decussate pairs of cymules; axis 15-20(-40) mm long, with tufts of hairs prominent at the nodes; cymules 3-flowered with the central flower male and a bract under each flower.
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