Indumentum dense, golden, becoming sparse on leaf upper surfaces. Stem prophylls and cataphylls narrow, acute, 0.5-1 mm long, almost obscured by the indumentum, with the cataphylls accrete up to halfway along the basal internode. Leaf lamina ovate to broadly ovate, 2.5-4 by 1.5-3 cm, cuneate at the base to a petiole 3-5 mm long, acute and sometimes shortly acuminate at the apex. Inflorescence spike-like, actually a determinate series of 3 to 4 decussate pedunculate cymules, each produced from the central bud of the one below it; axis with a basal internode 8-10 mm long and succeeding internodes 4-8 mm long; cymules up to 12-flowered with the central 2-6 flowers male. Fig. 5a.
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