Perennial herbs with stout storage rhizomes,
roots fibrous, leafy shoots 1-1.5 m high and ca. 2 cm
in diameters at base. Bladeless sheaths 7-9,
glabescent or short hairy, basal one purplish-red,
upper one reddish-green with red margin; leaf
sheaths green, long brown hairy; petioles very short,
2.0-3.0 mm long, purplish-green, hairy; ligules hairy,
shallowly bilobed, 1.0-1.2 cm long, lobes irregularly
truncate, ochreate, split down on one side ca. 1.0 cm
long, green with brown at margin. Leaves 20-30 cm,
leaf blades elliptic-oblong, 29.5-33.0 cm by 6.6-6.8
cm, apex acuminate, margin entire, base round, under
surface purplish-red or reddish-green, hairy, upper