A small, repent, branching, epiphytic herb; stem 1 mm. thick, creeping on trees, crisp-pubescent, scurfy-exfoliating, internodes 1-2 cm. long, much reduced on the short, erect, fertile branches; leaves alternate or the very uppermost opposite, elliptic-obovate, apex rounded or emarginate, base acutish, 5-8 mm. wide X 8-13 mm. long, much reduced upward on fertile branches, crisp-puberulent above, glabrous and conspicuously brown-glandular-dotted beneath, ciliate toward the apex, obscurely palmately 3-nerved, the midrib faintly nerved upward, drying firm, subtranslucent; petiole 3-5 mm. long, filiform, glabrous or sparsely puberulent; spikes terminal on short axillary branches, 1 mm. thick X 2-2.5 cm. long, closely flowered; peduncle 5-8 mm. long, glabrous; bracts round-peltate; fruit globose, apex oblique, stigma subapical.
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