Rhizome ± thick. Stem erect or semiscandent, sometimes minutely spotted with lilac, 30--80 cm, glabrous. Leaves (except basal ones) in whorls of 3 or 4, occasionally opposite, sessile, abaxially glaucous, linear to lanceolate, 5--11 cm × 5--16 mm, ± leathery, abaxially scaberulose on veins, apex hooked at anthesis. Inflorescences (1 or)2-flowered; peduncle 0.5--1.5 cm; bracts very small. Flowers pendulous; pedicel 3--10 mm. Perianth purplish pink, pale greenish purple, or greenish crimson, cylindric, 5--12 mm; lobes 1--3 mm. Filaments 0.6--1.5 mm, papillose; anthers 1--3.5 mm. Ovary ca. 3 mm. Style 2--2.5 mm. Berries 5--7 mm in diam., 2-or 3-seeded. Fl. May. 2 n = 28*.
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