They are long and wide, obovate in shape with mucronate tips. Protoconch of one smooth, mucronate whorl. May. They have spiny bracts and ovate sepals which are mucronate but not spiny. The stem is glabrous or pubescent, with opposite, elliptical and mucronate leaves. Leaves oblong-elliptic, petiolate, often slightly mucronate. Glumes are yellowish-brown to red-brown are acute, obtuse and mucronate. The calyx lobes oblong and mucronate, without a dorsal keel. Leaves are spatulate-cuneate to oblong-spatulate, truncate to acuminate, and mucronate. The apex of the fruit is very shortly mucronate, i.e. terminating in a sharp tip. In general, the upper leaves are converted into tendrils, whereas the lower leaves are mucronate. The anthers are mucronate, with long pointy appendages and upright.