pendent. glabrous, epiphytic herb; stem 5 mm. thick when dry, internodes 2-4 or 6 cm. long; leaves alternate, round-ovate or ovate, apex acute to subacumi-nate, base rounded, peltate within 1 cm. of the margin, 5-8 cm. wide X 7-11 cm. long, palmately about 11-nerved, drying rather firm, subtranslucent; petioles stout, 2-3 mm. thick, 1-4 cm. long; spikes on short, bracteate, leaf-opposed-branches, 2 mm. thick more or less 15 cm. long, densely flowered; peduncle 1.5-2 cm. long, bracts rather large, lanceolate; floral bracts round-peltate; fruit subglobose, apex obliquely truncately scutelliform, stigma central.
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