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Araceae
Schismatoglottis ciliata A.Hay
SUMMARY
Herb to c. 30 cm tall. Stem condensed, ?erect, c. 1 cm diam., pleionanthic. Leaves few together (c. 4); petiole shorter than the blade, to 14 cm long, densely clothed in coarse multicellular hairs (rusty brown when dry), to 4 mm long, sheathing in the lower c. 1⁄10 with the sheath extended into a blunt ligular portion c. 1 cm long; blade rather narrowly oblong ovate, 13–18 cm long × 7–8 cm wide, dark green above and variegated with two (one on each side of midrib) irregularly blotchy bands of whitish green running about midway between the margin and midrib, paler below, hairy on the margins and midrib on the abaxial side, the base rather narrowly cordate with the posterior lobes overlapping or nearly so, the tip abruptly acuminate for 1 cm; posterior lobes c. 2 cm long; midrib prominent abaxially, not prominent adaxially; primary lateral veins fine and abaxially strongly raised, c. 12 on each side of the midrib, glabrous, diverging at 70–80°, frequently with one or two branches arising less than half way from the midrib, alternating with lesser interprimaries and all running to a rather conspicuous abaxially raised intramarginal vein c. 1–2 mm from the margin; secondary venation adaxially obscure, abaxially rather sparse, c. 3 mm apart; tertiary venation obscure. Inflorescences two together, subtended by blunt cataphylls 1.5–2.5 cm long; peduncle extremely short, completely hidden within the cataphylls and leaf bases. Spathe 2.2 cm long, green; lower spathe narrowly funnel-shaped, 5 mm long, differentiated from the limb by a barely perceptible constriction; limb 1.6 cm long, subcylindric corresponding with male zone of spadix, then abruptly inflated over the appendix, finally abruptly apiculate for 2 mm, deciduous. Spadix 2 cm long; female zone subcylindric, 4 mm long (adnation?); pistils subglobose, crowded, c. 0.75 mm diam.; stigma sessile, discoid, c. 0.3 mm across; interpistillar staminodes not observed; sterile interstice 2 mm long, somewhat thicker than the female and male zones, composed of 2 whorls of more or less rhomboid staminodes c. 0.75 mm across; male zone cylindric, 5 mm long, c. 2 mm diam.; stamens rather laxly arranged, mostly in adnate pairs, with the connective extended well above the thecae, c. 0.25 mm across; appendix ovoid, c. 5 mm long, 4 mm across, composed of more or less flat-topped irregularly polygonal staminodes c. 1.1 mm diam. Fruiting spathe very broadly urceolate, c. 7 mm long × 9 mm wide.