The branches are slender, terete and glabrous. The terete or flattened flowering scapes are normally persistent. It normally has a short thick rhizome with smooth, trigonous and terete culms. It has a terete (round in cross-section), flowering stem, that can grow up to long. The leaves are terete reasonably thick to diameter and long. Fruit a drupe, terete or laterally flattened. It has rigid, terete and biconvex culms that are smooth and glabrous. The scape (flowering stalk) is erect, leafless, terete, or compressed. They are simple and axillary with three to seven flowered umbellasters with terete peduncles. Stamens with terete foments, the connective not rhomboidal. There are three main stem shapes&colon; terete, angular and flattened. Its stems are terete (cylindrical), nearly glabrous and smooth. The generally bright green branchlets are rigid, terete and obscurely ribbed. The ovary is densely pubescent; style terete, silvery gray tomentose on lower half. They are green, often glaucous shoots are usually terete or triangular.