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Araceae
Rhaphidophora kokodensis P.C.Boyce
SUMMARY
Small, homeophyllous (?) liane to unknown ultimate height; seedling stage and pre-adult plants not observed; LEAVES: adult shoot architecture comprised of elongated, clinging, physiognomically unbranched, leafy, non-flowering stems and long, moderately elaborated, free, sympodial, densely leafy flowering stems; stems terete in cross-section, internodes to 1-4 x 0.5-0.8 cm, separated by slightly oblique, prominent leaf scars; flagellate foraging stems, clasping roots, and feeding roots unknown; leaves spiro-distichous on free shoots; cataphylls and prophylls chartaceous but very soon degrading into long tough fibres; petiole deeply canaliculate, 5-16 x 0.2-0.25 cm, smooth, apical geniculum quite well defined, basal geniculum weak; petiolar sheath prominent, chartaceous, extending to apical geniculum, very swiftly degrading to fibres; lamina entire, narrowly lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, occasionally slightly falcate, 13-25 x 1.75-6 cm, stiffly coriaceous, base acute, apex acuminate to long-acuminate with a minute tubule; midrib slightly raised abaxially, slightly sunken adaxially; primary venation densely pinnate, slightly raised abaxially and adaxially; interprimaries parallel to primaries indistinguishable from them; secondary and tertiary venation very faintly reticulate; INFLORESCENCE solitary, subtended by an underdeveloped foliage leaf and much degraded cataphyll fibre; peduncle compressed-terete, 7-12 x 0.2-0.3 cm; spathe narrowly cigar-shaped, long stout-acuminate, (4-)8-9 x c. 1.3 cm, marcescent(?); spadix cylindrical, sessile, 2-6 x 0.8-1 cm; stylar region rhombohexagonal, c. 0.9-1 x 0.8-1.1 mm, truncate; stigma punctiform, very slightly raised, c. 0.4 mm diam.; anthers not exserted at male anthesis; INFRUCTESCENCE cylindrical, c. 11 x 1.3 cm.