Stemless. Rootstock woody, creeping, rooting all along, as thick as a goose-quill, and, as well as the peduncles, petioles, and leaves beneath, clothed with minute membranous fimbriate appressed scales. Leaves solitary, rather distant, erect, coriaceous, 6–9 in. by 2 1/2–4 1/2 in., elliptic-oblong, slightly oblique, abruptly acuminate, base rounded or acute, green and glabrous above, reddish with scattered scales below, nerves alternate, distant, slender; petioles stout, shorter than the blade; stipules very large, 1 in., convolute, base broadly ovate, tip long subulate, scaly, persistent. Peduncles 1 in. long, stout, erect, 6–10-flowered; bracts broad, membranous, obtuse, persistent, scaly, forming an involucre; pedicels slender, umbellate, 1/4 in. Male fl.: Sepals 4, rose-red, outer orbicular, 1/4 in. diameter, concave, scaly on the backs; inner much smaller, linear-oblong. Anthers linear, obtuse, filaments very short. Female flower and fruit unknown.
