LEAF DESCRIPTION: SIMPLE, 2" to 3" long and one-third as wide, broad linear to oblanceolate shape with acute tip and
cuneate base.
Leaves digitate, (3)5-foliolate, petioles 3-10 cm, petiolules 1-5 cm, glabrous or lepidote; leaflets 10-18 x 3-4 cm, concolorous, coriaceus, lanceolate or eliptic, apex
cuneate or rounded, margins entire, base truncate or
cuneate, occasionally cordate, venation penninerved, adaxial and abaxial surfaces lepidote.
Hypotheca is
cuneate in its posterior portion, dorsally convex, narrowly rounded at the antapex, and slightly concave between the antapex and LSL.
chartaceous to subcoriaceous) blades, narrowly
cuneate to attenuate (vs.
Leaves petiolate; petiole 0.2-0.3 cm in length; blade oblong lanceolate to elliptic, (3-)4-5(-6) X1.5-2 cm, apex acute to slightly obtuse, base
cuneate, actinodromous basal to supra-basal, 2-4 basal veins, dark green, papyraceous.
Spikelets 6-60 per inflorescence, 20-80% peduncled, narrowly ellipsoid to lanceoloid, 5-10.5 mm long, 2-3 mm wide,
cuneate at base, acuminate at apex; scales somewhat spreading, loosely spirally arranged, with 2-4 sterile scales at the base of the spikelet (excluding the prophyll) and 8-24 fertile scales; fertile scales 1.7-2.8 mm long, 1-1.4 mm wide, ovate, acute to obtuse, often with the midvein prolonged as a short mucro, reddish brown with a green to brown, 3-nerved mid-zone.
0.5 mm, linear-lanceolate, brown to atropurpureous, marginally ciliate-dentate, the cilia 0.3-0.5 mm long; phyllopodia 7-10 mm long; fronds 34-53 cm long; stipes 1/4-1/3 of the frond length; stipe scales 0.5-1 mm long (to 2.5 mm on the first 1 (-3) cm of the stipe base with scales lanceolate or linear-lanceolate), ovate to rounded, black, marginally ciliate, with long-ciliate margin and small central body; blades 15-37 x 1.2-2.8 cm, linear-elliptic, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, basicaly
cuneate to attenuate, apically acuminate; abaxial blade scales ca.
LEAF DESCRIPTION: SIMPLE, 2" to 4" long and 1" to 2" wide, oblong-ovate shape with
cuneate base and mucronate to cuspidate tip.
sessile, and articulate with rachis,
cuneate at base, caudate at apex,
LEAF DESCRIPTION: SIMPLE, 6" to 8" long and 2 1/2" to 3" wide, elliptic shape with
cuneate base and entire margins, usually pubescent underneath.
