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Shrub or treelet, 1-4 m tall, glabrous. Prophyll 10-15 mm long, slender, acute. Petiole slender, 1-1.5(-4) cm long, vaginate only at base; blade membranous or subcoriaceous, not conspicuously glandular-dotted, shiny green above, pale below, often drying yellowish green, lanceolate to lance-elliptic or elliptic-ovate, broadly ovate on sterile branches, often asymmetrical: with one side wider in the lower half, 12-23 x 3.5-9(-11) cm, apex acuminate, base equally attached to petiole, acute, cuneate or obtuse, may be truncate or subcordate on sterile branches; pinnately veined, secondary veins 4-6 per side, originating at a steep angle from 3/4 or more of primary vein, 2-3 lower ones from near base, slightly prominulous on both sides, often pale or yellow, tertiary venation inconspicuously reticulate, with some more prominent ones transverse. Inflorescence erect; peduncle slender, 1-1.5 cm long; spike to 10 cm long, white or green, apiculate or not; rachis glabrous; flowers densely crowded; floral bracts marginally fringed. Infructescence (grey-)green; fruits oblongoid to trigonous, 0.7-1(-3) mm in diam., brownish green, glabrous, stigmas 3, sessile.
A glabrous, nodose shrub, 1-3 m. tall; flowering internodes slender and com-paratively short; leaves elongated-elliptic, lance-elliptic or ovate, 3.5-9 X 12-17 cm. long, apex more or less attenuate, bluntly acuminate, base equilaterally acute or obtusish, pinnately nerved to the upper third or nearly throughout, the nerves mostly 4-5 or 6 on each side, with fainter intermediates and cross-connecting-anastomosing nervules, commonly 2 or 3 pairs approximated near the base and 1 or 2 pairs above the middle of the blade, the nerves often golden in dry specimens, drying rather firm, somewhat glossy, narrowly revolute, translucent; petiole about 5-10 mm. long or sometimes up to 1.5 cm. on lower leaves, commonly vaginate near the base but occasional leaves vaginate to the middle or above; spikes 2-4 mm. thick and up to 10 cm. long; peduncle commonly about as long as the petiole; bracts rounded dome-shaped when young with submarginal fringe, becoming round-or triangular-subpeltate and loosely fringed; fruit small,, obpyramidal-trigonous, convex at the top, glabrous; stigmas slender, sessile.
