Schismatoglottis cyria P.C.Boyce

Robust herb to 1.2 m tall. Stem condensed, pleionanthic, c. 3 cm diam., pink internally. Leaves several together; petiole c. 1 m long, sheathing only at the extreme base; attached portion of sheath c. 4 cm long, ?with a ligular extension (see Notes); blade oblong-ovate, dark green adaxially, paler abaxially, to 44 cm long × 24 cm wide, the base truncate-rounded, shortly decurrent on the petiole, the tip abruptly acuminate for c. 4 cm; midrib yellowish and somewhat prominent abaxially, adaxially somewhat impressed; primary lateral veins c. 18 on each side, abaxially prominent, adaxially impressed, diverging at c. 60–80°, alternating with lesser interprimary veins and occasionally with one or two subsidiary veins arising c. ¼–⅓ of the way along their length from the midrib; secondary venation fine and dense, mostly arising from midrib or from primary veins distal to insertion of subsidiary veins. Inflorescences 6 together, subtended by lanceolate cataphylls to 12 cm long; peduncle to 30 cm long. Spathe 12 cm long; lower spathe green, narrowly ovoid, 3 cm long, differentiated from the limb by a weak constriction; limb lanceolate, pale pink, 9 cm long including a 2 cm mucro, deciduous. Spadix sessile, c. 9 cm long, subcylindric (somewhat attenuate at junction of male and female zones); female zone 3 cm long, dorsally adnate to the spathe for c. 1.5 cm; pistils ovoid, c. 0.5 mm diam., close-packed; stigma sessile, irregularly discoid, papillate, slightly narrower than ovary; interpistillar staminodes irregularly scattered within the female zone, distally crowded and forming part of the sterile interstice, basally forming a row along the spathe/spadix adnation, clavate, c. 0.5 mm diam., white-tipped, the filament brown; sterile interstice c. 5 mm long, attenuate, c. 4 mm diam., the lower part formed of interpistillar staminodes (with a few interspersed pistils), the upper c. 2 mm formed of sterile stamens; male zone 2 cm long, 6 mm diam.; stamens close-packed, somewhat irregularly rectangular to dumbbell-shaped, occasionally in united pairs, c. 0.7 mm across (covered with white crystals in dry state); connective truncate, slightly raised above the tops of the thecae; apical pores conspicuously flanged; appendix 4.5 cm long, basally more or less isodiametric with male zone, tapering in the distal 2 cm; appendix staminodes more or less rectangular, c. 0.7 mm across, densely packed, truncate.