A nodose, glabrous shrub; flowering internodes short and moderately slender, drying yellowish-glossy; leaves lance-ovate, apex acuminate, base rounded, obtuse, equilateral, or one side very slightly shorter, 2-3.5 cm. wide X 6.5-9 cm. long, pinnately nerved to the upper fourth or nearly throughout, the nerves 3-4 on each side, strongly curving toward the tip submarginally, with intermediates and cross-connecting and anastomosing nervules, the nerves beneath and the midrib above salient, drying firm, glossy, not glandular-dotted, subopaque, narrowly revolute, light green; petiole up to 1 cm. long, glossy, vaginate-winged to the middle or below; spikes 3 mm. thick X 2 cm. long; peduncle slender, up to 1 cm. long; bracts triangular-or rounded-subpeltate, submarginally fringed; fruit obpyramidal-trigonous with dome-shaped apex, glabrous, stigmas filiform, sessile.
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