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Small shrub or even small treelet, to 1.5 m tall, nodose in lower part. Stem densely pubescent or hirsute, hairs often reddish brown (to 0.7 mm long). Petiole 0.3-0.5 cm long, densely pubescent or hirsute, vaginate at base; blade not scabrous, glandular-dotted, lance-elliptic to oblanceolate, 12-15 x 3.5-5 cm, apex acuminate, base equal or almost equally attached to petiole, acute or cuneate, glabrous above, erect-pubescent below, more so on veins; pinnately veined, secondary veins 4-5 per side, originating from lower 2/3 of primary vein, not anastomosing, plane to impressed above, prominulous or prominent below, tertiary veins reticulate. Inflorescence erect; peduncle to 0.5 cm long, crisp-pubescent; spike to 8(-12?) cm long, reddish, pinkish or brownish, apiculate; rachis glabrous; floral bracts densely marginally fringed. Fruits depressed globose or obovoid, ca. 1 mm thick, pubescent or hirtellous, separate from each other, stigmas 3, sessile.
