Schismatoglottis clemensiorum A.Hay

Herb to c. 40 cm tall. Stem erect to decumbent, condensed to somewhat elongate with internodes to 1 cm long, pleionanthic. Leaves several together; petiole 11–21 cm long, not or minutely to distinctly crisped-alate on the distal adaxial edges, sheathing in the lower ¼–½, wings of sheath fully attached and tapering; blade broadly (oblong-) lanceolate (to ovate), sometimes variegated ?grey-green in a blotched band on either side about midway between the midrib and margin, 16–23 cm long × 5–8.5 cm wide, the base cuneate to rounded, the apex acute to obtuse and then acuminate for c. 1.5 cm; midrib slightly prominent abaxially, adaxially flush with the lamina; primary lateral veins distant, often subopposite, c. 5 on each side of the midrib, alternating with lesser interprimaries, diverging at 45–60°, evenly ascending and then joining a rather conspicuous submarginal vein c. 1 mm from the margin; secondary venation faint, arising from the midrib; tertiary venation inconspicuous. Inflorescence solitary (occasionally 2 together); peduncle exserted for c. 3 cm from leaf base and cataphyll; spathe 5.5–8 cm long, slender, whitish; lower spathe 2–2.5 cm long, narrowly ovoid, differentiated from the limb by a weak constriction; limb lanceolate, 3.5–5.5 cm long including a 2–2.5 cm long acumen, deciduous; spadix sessile, slender almost as long as the spathe; female zone 7 mm long × 3 mm wide; ovaries squat, almost completely concealed by the stigmas; stigma broadly discoid, flat-topped, drying black, c. 0.5 mm diam., neighbouring stigmas contiguous; interpistillar staminodes few among the pistils, more or less flat-topped, about the same height as the stigmas, c. 0.3 mm diam.; sterile interstice hardly attenuate, short, 1–2 whorls of interpistillar staminodes; male zone about equalling the female zone, c. 2 mm wide; stamens crowded, mainly longitudinally aligned, truncate, more or less rectangular to rhomboid with the connective somewhat expanded laterally but not exceeding the thecae in height; pores depressed; appendix very long and slender, about twice the length of the combined fertile zones, c. 3.5 cm long, subcylindric and isodiametric with male zone in the basal ⅔, the upper ⅓ gradually tapering to a fine point; staminodes of appendix crowded, flat-topped, slightly impressed, irregularly polygonal, 0.5 mm diam. Fruiting spathe narrowly urceolate then ovoid, to 2.5 cm long.