Plant pendulous, glabrous except the young shoots and flower buds with sparse brown indumentum; epicortical runners absent. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, acute; lamina 8-18 cm long, 8-15 mm wide, often falcate, attenuate at base into petiole 13-30 mm long. Inflorescence a pedunculate umbel of dyads; flowers pedicellate; peduncle very slender, 30-60 mm long; rays of umbel 2, not strongly divergent, 5-10 mm long; pedicels 4-8 mm long; bracts c. 1 mm long. Calyx entire, 0.3 mm long. Corolla in mature bud slender in middle, 20-25 mm long, 5-merous, obtuse, green or sometimes red. Anthers c. 4 mm long, about equal to free part of filament. Fruit narrowly ellipsoidal, c. 9 mm long.
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