Small deciduous trees of fresh fragrant wood ginger, high 10m. Young branchlets pubescent; buds conical, brown pilose outside. Ye Husheng; petiole 1.5cm long; leaf ovate elliptic or oblong, long 7-14cm, wide 2.5-5cm, apex acuminate, basal cuneate slightly rounded, dark green above, glabrous, pink green below, pubescent, midrib slightly dense. Dioecious; umbels axillary, often clustered into 4 short shoots, each inflorescence with flowers 4-6, first leaf and leaf open or open at the same time; perianth lobes 6, yellow green or yellow white, elliptic, ca. 2mm; fertile stamens 9, filaments have yellow pilose, anther locules 4, are to 3-valved. Fruit globose, diameter 5-7mm, apex with a small tip, black when mature; length of fruit stalk 4mm, fruit is increased, with sparsely pubescent. The flowering period is 2-3 months, and the fruit period is September.
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