Description: Herbaceous aquatic perennial, velvet leaves, 50-10 cm length form obovalada-spatulate or cordate, pale green, veins evident, grouped in rosettes floating roots from which hang never branched, but covered with hairs and with roots hanging freely in water, not fixed to the bottom.
Flowers very tiny, greenish-white, clustered in inflorescences of only 1 cm long, spadix a miniature, typical of aroids, lacking the spathe

