| Original Botanical Description or Link to | Herb monoecious, perennial, terrestrial,
up to 45 cm tall. Stem unbranched, erect and arching, 3–
4 mm in diameter, maroon, strigose, internodes 1.5–5.0
cm long. Stipule persistent, green, lanceolate, 5–7 × 2–3
mm, sparsely pilose adaxially, glabrous abaxially, margin
ciliate, apex cuspidate. Leaves alternate; petiole terete,
4–10 × 1.5–2.0 mm, maroon, sparsely strigose; lamina
asymmetric, basifixed, lanceolate, 5–12 × 1–3 cm, base
cordate, inequilateral, margin lacerated, serrate to double
serrate, apex acuminate; adaxially green, minutely
echinate between veins, sometimes with white spots coloration, abaxially pale green, reddish-brown along the
edge, minutely scabrid; secondary veins 5–7 pairs.
Inflorescence axillary, few-flowered, 1(–2). Staminate
flower bracteoles persistent, lanceolate, 4–5 × 1.0–1.5
mm, red, sparsely puberulent, margin ciliate, apex
acuminate; pedicel 4.5–7.0 mm long, white, sparsely
puberulous; tepals 4, white; outer tepals broadly ovate to
suborbicular, 10–11 × 6.5–7.5 mm, adaxially glabrous,
abaxially sparsely puberulent, apex rounded; inner tepals
linear to oblanceolate, 6.0–6.5 × 2.0–2.5 mm, glabrous on
both surfaces, apex acute; androecium actinomorphic,
stamens 25–30, filaments ca. 1 mm long, fused at base;
anthers obovoid, 2–3 mm, apex retuse. Pistillate flower
bracteoles persistent, lanceolate, 4.5–5.0 × 1.0–1.2 mm,
red, puberulent, margin ciliate, apex acuminate; pedicel
4.5–5.0 mm long, white, sparsely puberulent; tepals 5,
pinkish, glabrous on both surfaces; outer tepals elliptic to
obovate, 9–10 × 5.0–6.5 mm, apex rounded; inner tepals
oblong to oblanceolate, 9.5–11.0 × 3.0–5.5, apex rounded,
apex rounded; styles 3, yellow, apically bifid, 3.0–3.5
mm long, stigma in spiral band and papillose all around;
ovary trigonous-elliptic, pale green, 8.0–8.5 × 5.0–5.5
mm (wings excluded), short hirsute; wings 3(–4),
subequal, pale green, pinkish on the edge, distally
truncate, 6–9 mm long, 3.5–6.5 mm wide; locules 3,
placenta bilamellate. Capsule trigonous-elliptic, 7–10 ×
14–16 mm (wings included); pedicel 5.0–5.5 mm long;
wings 3, subequal, truncate distally, acute proximally,
7.5–8.0 mm long, 6.5–8.0 mm wide |
