Glabrous shrub, 2-7 m. Petioles 2-20 mm long, those at branching nodes vaginate-winged almost to blade; blades lanceolate-elliptic, gradually acuminate to short-acuminate, acute to subcordate and markedly unequal at base (one side 5-15 mm shorter), 14-26 cm long, 3.5-10 (12) cm wide, very dark green and shiny above, duller beneath, veined throughout, the veins all prominent, with 7-10 pairs of major lateral veins. Spikes erect when juvenile, usually pendent in fruit, 5-14 cm long in fruit, and to 5 mm diam; peduncles 5-17 mm long; bracts sharply triangular (appearing round in bud), densely ciliate marginally, often more conspicuously so on upper margin. Fruits compressed laterally and much longer in the direction of the rachis, truncate but depressed at the style, sparsely puberulent to papillate-puberulent; stigmas 3, short, deltoid, persistent. Croat 6685, 12605.