; 0 caulescent, small, herbaceous plant, flowering 3.7 dm tall; 1 stem erect, 13 cm tall. leaves ascending, pale dull green both sides with about 10 parallel, slightly darker longitudinal lines becoming bronzy where entering sheath, submembranous, flexible, concave above, convex below, not contracted at base, the larger ones ligulate-lanceolate, acute, mucronate, 10 cm long, 1.7–1.8 cm wide, lower leaves ovate, acuminate, 1.5- 2.8 cm long, 1–1.4 cm wide, the upper ones longer than the internodes, minutely pale lepidote. inflorescence: peduncle foliose, peduncle bracts lanceolate-ligulate, 6–8 cm long, l.4–1.7 cm wide; fertile part erect, laxly once-branchedly paniculate, 2.1 dm long rachis slender, covered with a scattered brown furfuraceous indument, with 5 short, racemose, lateral axes 3.5–6 cm long each axis 15–17-flowered, the uppermost part of the inflorescence elongated to 10 cm; primary bracts subtending the lower three axes ascending lanceolate, acute, 3 cm long 0.8 cm wide, entire; floral bracts lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 3–3.5 mm long, 0.7 mm wide at the base. flowers shortly pedicellate, pedicels l–2 mm long, minutely furfuraceous; sepals pale green, lanceolate, acute, 3–4.5 mm long, 1 mm wide, dorsally sparsely furfuraceous in lower half, petals white, lanceolate, subacute or obtusely acute, not unguiculate, 3 mm long 1 mm wide. stamens: anther suborbicular-oblong, 0.5 mm long basally bilobed; filament white, 1.2 mm long. pistil: ovary inferior, pale green, subclavate-cylindric, 3 mm long 1 mm wide at summit, 0.7 mm wide at base, pale brown furfuraceous; ovules caudate-appendaged at both ends.Edited from : Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.. (protologue) .