Plant moderately robust, erect. Stem internodes compressed or flattened and double-edged, longitudinally ribbed, 25-50 mm long, 1-2 mm wide below, widened to 2-4 mm above. Leaves normally developed; lamina spathulate to obovate, attenuate at the base to an obscure petiole 2-4 mm long, dark and slightly lustrous on both surfaces, rounded at the apex, 25-50 by 12-25 mm, curvinerved with 3 or 5 veins obscure. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, a pedunculate cymule of 3 flowers, subtended by a cupule c. 1 mm long, with subsidiary cymules sometimes developing adjacent to the first, with the middle flower female and the lateral flowers male; peduncle 1-3 mm long. Fruit globose or depressed-globose, on a stipe 2.5-4 mm long, usually smooth and shining, sometimes weakly tuberculate, with a short distinct neck, yellow-green to yellow-brown.
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