Plants rhizomatous, (0.5-)1.5-4.6 dm. Leaves sometimes highly reduced or absent; petiole 4-25 mm, channeled adaxially, glabrous; blade usually maculate, sometimes not maculate, dull and light green to purplish abaxially, dull or shiny and green to dark green, usually with white tissue bordering larger veins adaxially, ovate or ovate-elliptic to oblanceolate or spatulate, 8-80 × 4-49 mm, coriaceous, base obtuse to attenuate or decurrent, margins entire or denticulate to coarsely denticulate, apex obtuse to acute. Inflorescences 1-2(-3), 4-24-flowered; peduncular bracts 1-5, subulate to narrowly lanceolate, 3-9 × 1-2 mm, membranous, margins entire or erose-denticulate; inflorescence bracts subulate to ovate-lanceolate, usually shorter than or, rarely, longer than subtended pedicels, 3.5-6 × 2-3 mm, herbaceous. Pedicels 3-18 mm. Flowers: calyx lobes appressed or spreading in fruit, green with margins hyaline to white or pinkish, widely deltate to widely ovate, 1.1-3.9 × 1.1-2.4 mm, margins entire or erose-denticulate, apices acute; petals greenish white, white, pink, or reddish, obovate, 4.2-11.2 × 3.1-7.1 mm, margins entire or obscurely denticulate; stamens 5-9 mm; filament base 0.5-0.8 mm wide; anthers 1.8-5.5 mm, apiculations absent or 0.1-0.2 mm, thecae creamy white to pink, tubules orange, 0.4-0.8 mm, gradually narrowed from thecae, lateral walls usually touching for most of their lengths, pores 0.1-0.3 × 0.1-0.2 mm; ovary smooth; style exserted, 4-9 mm; stigma (0.8-) 1-1.6 mm wide, lobes erect. Capsules depressed-globose, 3-6 × 6-9 mm. 2n = 46.
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