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Small shrub, sometimes trailing, to 1 m tall. Stem hirsute. Stipules long persistent. Petiole 0.5 cm long, hirsute, vaginate to middle; blade slightly bullate to smooth, coriaceous and silvery shiny or membranous, glandular-dotted, lance-elliptic, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 7-17 x 2.5-6 cm, apex short-acuminate, maybe somewhat obtuse, base equal or unequally attached to petiole difference at most 0.1 cm, cuneate to obtusish, rounded or subcordate, glabrous but veins appressed-pubescent below; pinnately veined, secondary veins (7-)8-12 per side, originating from throughout primary vein, impressed above, prominulous to strongly prominent below, tertiary veins transverse. Inflorescence erect; peduncle 0.5-1 cm long, glabrous or hirsute; spike 2-4 cm long, yellow or green, apiculate; floral bracts cucullate and pilose on inner side and at base, rachis pubescent. Infructescence erect, to 7 cm long, to 1 cm thick, green; fruits globose or obovoid, 3 mm in diam., glabrous, green, stigmas 3, linear, erect, may give impression of a style, obsolete on fruit.
