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Rather small, leafy plants; twigs quadrangular, becoming terete; internodes at first somewhat flattened to quadangular, to 6 cm long; basal cataphylls extremely inconspicuous, sometimes with a second pair 0.3-0.6 cm higher. Petiole not or scarcely distinguishable; blade rather thick, spatulate to elliptical, to 5 x 2 cm, base cuneate; usually 3 prominent palmate veins of about same length. Inflorescence to 2.5 cm long in fruit; peduncle simple, 0.1-0.4 cm long, or 0.5-0.7 cm long when subtended by a low pair of sterile bracts; fertile internodes 2 or 3, with 3-5 flowers per bract in 2-seriate pattern. Fruit dull orange, ovoid, relatively large, 0.5 x 0.3 cm, with rather narrow tip when dry, perianth segments more or less spreading or erect.
Branches toward the tips rhombically quadrangulate, the branchlets somewhat compressed and swollen below the nodes. Cataphylls a single basal pair, short. Leaves narrowly obovate or elliptical-obovate, angustate to the base, very obtuse, almost nerveless despite the specific name, coriaceous, 2-5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide; petioles 2-4 mm. long. Spikes solitary or clustered, 3-4-articulate, up to 3 cm. long; peduncle 1-2 mm. long; joints slender, 10-18-flowered in 4 series, 4-7 mm. long. Fruit yellow, ovate, 3-5 mm. long, the tepals erect, parted.
