A shrub; flowering internodes moderately slender, elongating downward, from very sparingly soft-pubescent quickly glabrescent; leaves ovate-lanceolate, apex gradually sharp-acuminate, base subequilaterally rounded or with one side 1-2 mm. shorter at the petiole, obtuse or abruptly acutish at the petiole, 3-5.5 cm. wide X 10-15 cm. long, pinnately nerved from below the middle, the nerves about 4 on each side, gradually closer together downward, impressed above, raised beneath, with cross-connecting-anastomosing nervules, glabrous above, the nerves beneath appressed-hairy, obscurely glandular-dotted beneath, drying firm, subtranslucent; petiole 5-15 mm. long, sparsely pubescent glabrescent, vaginate-winged to the middle; spikes yellow, as yet young, 2 mm. thick X 2 cm. long, mucronate; peduncle 5-10 mm. long, sparsely pubescent; bracts triangular-subpeltate, yellow-fringed; ovary and fruit not developed.
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