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Araceae
Rhaphidophora parvifolia Alderw.
SUMMARY
Moderate-sized, slender to somewhat robust, semileptocaul, homeophyllous neotenic liane to 4 m; seedling and pre-adult plants unknown; LEAVES: adult shoot architecture comprised of clinging, physiognomically unbranched, mostly densely leafy, sterile stems and abbreviated, free, fertile stems; stems minutely punctate, rectangular-terete in cross-section, widest side prominently convex, narrow side sulcate, internodes to 1-7 x 0.25 - 1 cm, separated by slight ± straight scars, older stems woody; clasping roots arising from the internodes, pubescent; feeding roots unknown; leaves distichous, scattered, appressed to substrate and shingling on adherent shoots, slightly scattered on free shoots, cataphylls and prophylls unknown; petiole deeply grooved, 0.2-1.2 x 0.1-0.25 cm, smooth, groove extending into c. 1 cm into abaxial lamina surface, apical and basal genicula barely visible; petiolar sheath soon drying and falling, membranous, slightly ligulate; lamina broadly subovate to ovate, thinly coriaceous, base rounded, briefly decurrent, apex obtuse to obtuse-auminate with a tiny tubule; midrib prominently raised abaxially, slightly sunken adaxially; primary venation densely pinnate, slightly raised abaxially and adaxially; interprimaries subparallel to primaries and barely distinguishable from them; secondary venation reticulate, barely visible; INFLORESCENCE solitary; peduncle terete, c. 2.5 x 0.3 cm; spathe unknown; spadix cigar-shaped, sessile, inserted ± level on peduncle, c. 4 x 0.75 cm; stylar region mostly irregularly rhombohexagonal, 1-1.3 x c. 1.1 mm, truncate; stigma barely raised, rounded, c. 0.3-0.diam.; INFRUCTESCENCE stoutly cigar-shaped, c. 4.5 x 1.2 cm, orange-yellow at maturity.