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Shrub or treelet, 2-7 m tall, sometimes with long, arching branches, often strongly branching. Stem glabrous or minutely pubescent, upper internodes smooth or somewhat lenticellate. Shoot apex emerging from within sheathing leaf base, prophyll undeveloped. Petiole glabrous or minutely pubescent, 0.3-2 cm long, deeply vaginate, margin protracted beyond base of blade forming a ligule-like structure to 4 mm long; blade shiny green above, lighter to whitish below, oblong-ovate, (narrowly) ovate or (narrowly) elliptic, 10-25 x 6-11 cm, apex acute to (long-)acuminate, base unequally attached to petiole difference 0.5-1(-3) cm (less in young leaves), longest side obtuse, rounded to cordulate, in narrow leaves acute, shorter side acute to obtuse, glabrous or minutely pubescent below; pinnately veined, secondary veins 8-10 per side, originating from throughout primary vein, loop-connected towards apex, tertiary veins inconspicuously reticulate. Inflorescence erect; peduncle moderately stout, 0.5-1 cm long; spike 5-10(-17) cm long, whitish, yellow or pale green, apiculate, densely flowered; rachis glabrous; floral bracts 0.3-0.6 mm in diam., densely marginally fringed, conspicuously arranged in whorls; anthers dehiscing apically. Fruits dark green, laterally compressed, oblongoid or obovoid, 2 mm long, 0.8-1 mm in diam., glabrous or slightly papillose, stigmas 3-4, sessile.
A glabrous, somewhat nodose shrub, or small tree, mostly 2-7 m. tall; flowering internodes rather short but slender, more or less verrucose-warty; leaves elliptic-ovate, oblong, or lance-elliptic, mostly 6-11 cm. wide X 10-25 cm. long, apex gradually acute to short-acuminate, rounded at base, or narrow leaves acute, one side 5-10 mm. shorter at the petiole, or occasional leaves equilateral, pinnately nerved throughout, the nerves 8-10 on each side with some intermediates; petiole 5-10 plus 5-10 mm. long, vaginate-winged to the blade with the wings protracted beyond the lower blade margin; spikes rather slender and elongated, 2-4 mm. thick and up to 15 cm. long but mostly 5-10 cm.; peduncle 5-10 mm. long and mod-erately stout; bracts triangular-subpeltate, marginally ciliolate; fruit elongated with the rachis, glabrous; stigmas 3, sessile.
A tree.
