A shrub; flowering internodes moderately slender, rather short, moderately to sparsely loosely villous; leaves lance-elliptic, apex sharp-acuminate, base equilateral and obtusish, or more commonly inequilateral and acute with one side about 2 mm. shorter, 4.5-7 cm. wide X 13-17 cm. long, pinnately nerved from below the middle, the nerves 3-4 or 5 on each side, with rather open, cross-connecting-anastomosing nervules, loosely long-villous, especially along the nerves beneath, somewhat long-ciliate, glandular-dotted beneath, drying rather thin and papery, translucent; petiole 20 plus 2 mm. long on lower leaves and vaginate-winged to about the middle, reduced upward, villous; spikes 3 mm. thick X 15-18 mm. long; peduncle about 5 mm. long, villous; bracts small, concave, short-ciliate along the concave margin; ovary ovoid, narrowing into a short, stout style, stigmas rather short, recurved.
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