Plant slender to robust, pendulous. Stem internodes flattened, widest above the middle or at the apex, with 1-5 longitudinal veins raised and distinct on each side and the middle one often more prominent, 20-60 mm long, 3-10 mm wide. Leaves rudimentary, erect, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, a sessile cymule of 1 flower subtended by a cupule c. 1 mm long, with subsidiary cymules developing lateral to the first one, with the first-formed flower female and the lateral flowers female or male. Fruit globose or slightly ellipsoid, sessile, smooth, pale coloured, probably yellowish. Fig. 12.
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