Shrub, ± 200 mm tall, internodes reddish, becoming brown. Leaves 3-sided, blunt apically, smooth. Flowers 1-3 per cyme, bracteoles above middle of pedicel, petals 2-or 3-seriate, 2 mm broad, magenta, filamentous staminodes absent, filaments pale pink, apically bright red. Fruit 5-locular, base deep, funnel-shaped, top raised, rims low, covering membranes convex from deeper centre of fruit, with prominent closing rodlets and a low rim at distal end, closing body a small, hollow hook, expanding keels short, diverging.
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