Description
Erect, subshrub, up to 70 cm tall. Stem arising from rhizome, simple, terete, sulcate, 7–8 mm in diameter, ascending, puberolous, olive green to green, non-leafy part quite straight, leafy part flexuous. Leaves up to 9 per stem, 15–25 cm long, subsessile;petiole short, 4–6 mm long, 3–4 mm in diameter, densely pubescent, swollen, green; lamina lanceolate to oblanceolate,14.6–24.6 cm long by 4.3–8.5 cm wide, coriaceous, adaxially green, glabrous, abaxially pale green, glabrous except the veins, margin entire, inconspicuously revolute, base obtuse, apex short acuminate; midveins slightly prominent, glabrous adaxially, distinctly raised, densely puberolous abaxially; lateral veins8–13 pairs. Inflorescence at the basal part of the stem, touching the ground, covered with dried leaves, 6–7 cm long, bearing 1–4 flowers; peduncle terete, 4–5 cm long, spiciform, pubescent, brownish cream to pale brown; bracts dimorphic, lanceolate to elliptic, 6.0–7.5 mm long by 4–5 mm wide, striate, yellowish brown, densely pubescent, margin entire, apex acute to bifid, lobules 3–4 mm long by 1.0–1.3 mm wide. Pedicel and ovaryterete, bent, tapering, 15–18 mm long, 2–3 mm in diameter, densely pubescent, sulcate, brownish red. Perianth campanulate, 1.5–1.8 cm long, 1.8–2.1 cm in diameter, corrugated, burgundy, densely pubescent outside, pale burgundy, with white hairs inside; tube1.8–1.9 cm long; lobes broadly triangular, 1.0–1.1 cm long by 13–15 cm wide, concave, apex acute, revolute. Stamens in 2 whorls, upper whorl 8–10, lower whorl 12–14; filament 1.0–1.5 mm long, glabrous; anthers oblong, 1.1–1.3 mm long. Stylecolumn 5–7 mm long, lobes 4–6, glabrous. Capsulefusiform, 2–3 cm long, pubescent; seeds not seen.