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Flowers pedicellate, 1–4 in the axil of bracts, arranged in an elongated spiciform raceme up to c. 35 cm long; raceme erect or slightly arcuate; bracts 2.5–4 mm long, puberulous to glabrous, truncate, fringed at the apex with 3–5 setae c. 2 mm long; pedicels 4–6 mm long; bracteoles 2.5–4 mm long.
Leaves 1.5–5 × 0.6–1.2 cm, lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate to ± deltate, apex acute, base narrowed into a petiole up to 1 cm long, margin usually ± shallowly lobed, sometimes entire, midrib prominent beneath, lamina sparsely puberulous on both surfaces.
Ovary 3–3.5 mm long, fusiform; styles of long-styled flowers 3–3.5 mm long, free almost to the base, strongly exserted; styles of short-styled flowers c. 1 mm long.
Hermaphrodite flowers strongly heterostylous; perianth 5-lobed; tube 1.5 mm long, pubescent outside; lobes 2–2.5(5) mm long, oblong.
Nut c. 5 mm long, fusiform, trigonous, papillose, with 3 spreading prickles on the angles a little below the middle, 3–5 mm long.
Ocrea 5–8 mm long, membranous, truncate with a terminal fringe of reddish wavy setae c. 5 mm long.
Stems red-brown, trailing or ascending, 40–50 cm long, longitudinally striate, puberulous.
Filaments 2–3 mm long; anthers 0.3–0.4 × 0.2–0.3 mm, ellipsoid.
Perennial herb, with several stems from a woody rootstock.
Male flowers not seen.
