|  | P.boehmeriaefolium 
 | Habit         : | Tall quite glabrous, branches subterete when dry, often warted, not stout, rather soft. |  | Leaves     : | Membranous, very shortly petioled or the upper sessile obliquely oblong or linear-oblong acuminate, often narrowed at the very unequal almost auricled base, 5-7-nerved, nerves distant, very variable, in the typical form 15 - 17.5 by 3.75 - 6.25 cm., broadest above the middle with narrow unequal bases. |  | Spikes      : | Male and female spikes 7.5 - 15 cm., peduncles slender much longer than the petioles; spikes flexuous; bracts of male pedicelled, the pedicel sometimes elongate; anthers 2 sessile 2-celled. |  | Fruits        : | 0.31 cm. diam. | 
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