Leaves erect to ± flat on the ground, ovate to broadly elliptic, narrowing below into a petiole-like base, up to 18 x 8 cm or more, spotted. Inflorescence a dense spike-like raceme; peduncles erect or ± curved, to 15 cm or more long; pedicels c. 1 mm long. Tepals c. 3–6 mm long, greenish-white, the outer spreading, the inner erect. Filaments triangular. Ovary subglobose; style c. 1 mm long, deciduous. Capsule subglobose-obovoid, 3-angled, c. 4–5 mm long. Seeds c. 3–4 mm long.