A shrub, up to about 3 m. tall; flowering internodes slender and rather short, sparsely crisp-hairy; leaves subrhombically elliptic, lanceolate, or subovate, smooth or slightly rugose, occasionally slightly scabrous, apex gradually sharp-acuminate, base rounded, obtuse to cordulate, or subcordate, equal at the petiole or with one side slightly shorter, 4-5 or sometimes 7 cm. wide X 10-17 cm. long, pinnately nerved from the lower half, the nerves 4-5 on each side, puberulent above along the nerves, rather sparsely appressed-or crisp-pubescent on the nerves beneath, glandular-dotted, drying rather thin, green, translucent; petiole 5-10 mm. long, crisp-villous, vaginate at the base; spikes 3 mm. thick X 6-9 cm. long; peduncle about 5 mm. long, pubescent or glabrate; bracts triangular-subpeltate, yellow-fringed; fruit obpyramidal-trigonous, glabrous, green to dark-colored, stigmas small, sessile.
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