Plants rhizomatous, 0.1-0.3(-0.4) dm. Leaves: petiole (8-)15-70 mm, channeled adaxially, glabrous; blade not or, sometimes, maculate, dull to shiny and light green to green abaxially, shiny and dark green sometimes with white tissue bordering larger veins adaxially, ovate to obovate or round, 16-73(-80) × 16-70 mm, coriaceous, base rounded to decurrent, margins crenate, apex subacute to obtuse, rounded, or retuse. Inflorescences 1 per stem, 4-22-flowered; peduncular bracts 1-5, oblong-ovate, 5.5-13 × 2-4 mm, chartaceous or membranous, margins entire; inflo-rescence bracts lanceolate-ovate, longer than subtended pedicels, 4-12 × 1.2-3 mm, chartaceous. Pedicels 4-8 mm. Flowers: calyx lobes appressed or spreading in fruit, green or pinkish with margins hyaline to white or pinkish, ovate, ovate-oblong, or obovate, 2-4.3(-4.5) × 1.4-2 mm, margins entire or erose-denticulate, apices obtuse to acute; petals white, often suffused with pink, obovate to round, 6-10.5 × 4.5-5 mm, margins entire; stamens 4-7 mm; filament base 0.6-0.9 mm wide; anthers 2-4.1 mm, apiculations 0.1-0.3 mm, thecae creamy white or greenish white to pink or reddish, tubules yellowish brown to pink or reddish, 0.2-0.3 mm, gradually or abruptly narrowed from thecae, lateral walls touching for most of their lengths, pores 0.1-0.2 × 0.1-0.2 mm; ovary smooth; style exserted, 6-9 mm; stigma 0.7-1.6 mm wide, lobes erect. Capsules depressed-globose, 3-3.5 × 4.2-5 mm. 2n = 46.
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