[4] The smooth, pilose, ellipsoid seeds exhibit trichomes arranged in continuous longitudinal lines.

[2][3] In one instance, it has been found growing in flooded grassland savanna at water depths of 110 cm beneath Tabebuia aurea trees.

[7] In another case, it was observed growing in floodplains at water depths of 1.5-2m among the grass species Oryza rufipogon and Paspalum wrightii.

[8] It was first described by Trickett in 1971 based on plant material cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

The plants had been introduced to cultivation by Amanda Bleher from a specimen collected in Guaporé River, Brazil.