Margins ciliate with minute to short hairs. Leaf bases rounded, truncate, or abruptly tapered . Leaf stalks 1-5 cm long. Ocrea often 1.5-3 cm long. In fertile soils, rhizomes can grow more than 50 mm per day.
Rhizome fragments can develop new shoots.
The following characteristics apply except where noted. Glandular disc orange-red. Veins of outer lobes forked and curved outwards at tips. Sepals dull deep pink to white . Glandular disc yellow-green.