Botany
· Small stemless herb with stout and elongated rootstock and with copious, spreading fibers.
· Leaves: sessile, grasslike, linear or narrowly lanceolate, 15 to 20 cm long, 1 to 2.5 cm wide and with pointed tip. Scape very short.
· Flowers: distichous, bright yellow, with the lowest in the raceme perfect and the upper, male. The perianth produced above the ovary consists of filiform, hairy, very slender strips which are 10 to 25 cm long and which alone, with the perianth segments, appear above ground. Segments 12 to 18 mm long, oblong-ovate, acute, and dorsally hairy. Stamens small, with short filaments.
· Fruits: oblong, about 10 mm in diameter. Seeds oblong and black with the testa deeply grooved in wavy lines.

Distribution
in open grasslands, chiefly in Cogonales areas at low and medium altitudes.
Found in Bontoc, Pangasinan, Rizal and Sorsogon provinces in Luzon, and in Mindoro, Palawan, Biliran, Panay and Mindanao,

Parts utilized
· Rhizome.
· Collect from early February to late October.
· Remove roots and rootlets, rinse, cut into pieces.
· Sundry.

Folkloric uses
· For lumbago, weak kidney, neurasthenia, urine retention, chronic nephritis, impotency, bed-wetting.
· Hypertension among women at late ages, chronic arthritis.
· Weakening of the knees and lumbar regions, numbness of the 4 limbs, rheumatic arthritis.
· Dosage: use 3 to 9 gms dried materials in decoction. Use pounded fresh material as poultice for treatment of anonymous infections.

Availability
Wild-crafted.