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An acaulescent herb with a sub-horizontal rhizome and thick, fleshy roots. Leaf-blade broadly ovate, occasionally broadly elliptic, 4-7 cm long, 3,5-6,5 cm wide, apex obtuse to round, base cordate, margins crenate, digitately nerved, discolorous, dark green and shiny above, paler below, bullate, glabrous; petiole 3-12 cm long. Flowers with pedicels 2-8 cm long. Male flowers: Sepals linear, 1,5 cm long, projecting beyond corolla, c. 2,5 mm. Corolla 1,3-1,5 cm long, 1,2 cm wide at mouth, pubes­cent inside in lower half; lobes ovate, 4 mm long, 3 mm wide. Glands ovate, 2 mm long, 1,5 mm wide, thick, fleshy, crearri. Stamens with filaments 3,5 mm long, anthers 2-2,5 mm long, glandular. Female flowers: Sepals linear, c. 6 mm long, free for 2-3 mm. Corolla-tube 1,3-1,5 cm long, 1,2-1,4 cm wide at mouth; lobes transversely ovate, 1-3 mm long, 6 mm wide, erect. Glands ovate to obovate, 2,5 mm long, 2 mm wide, cream. Ovary ellipsoid, 8 mm long, 4 mm wide, brown gland-dotted; style subter-ete, 4-5 mm long; lobes simp