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Rhizomes slender or knobbly, with stellate trichomes, often swollen and more hairy just below the scape. Leaves 1– 5, slightly fleshy; lamina ovate to ovate-orbicular, 4–15 cm. long, 3–10.5 cm. wide, acuminate, base cordate, serrate, ciliate, sometimes flushed purple beneath, scabrous-pubescent above with some longer hairs interspersed, scabrous-pubescent to setose on the nerves beneath; main nerves 7–9, prominent beneath; petiole 5–22 cm. long, retrorsely pubescent. Scape 8–30 cm. long, retrorsely pubescent, with 1-few small sterile bracts on the upper part. Inflorescence (1–)2–15-flowered, congested at first, usually becoming lax; bracts linear-lanceolate, 0.5–3 mm. long; pedicels 4–8(–15 in fruit) mm. long. Calyx-tube 1.5–2.5 mm. long, densely covered with simple and often some gland-tipped irregularly arranged hairs; lobes narrowly to broadly triangular, 0.5–3 mm. long. Petals pink or white, 5–10 mm. long, 4.5–8 mm. wide. Large anthers ± 1.5–1.8 mm. long, small anthers ± 1.1–1.4 mm. long; connective produced 0.1–0.3 mm.; posterior connective-appendage ± 0.5 mm. long; filaments 2.5–3 mm. long. Fruiting calyx 3–4 .5 mm. long, 3.5–5 mm. in diameter. Fig. 17.