Schismatoglottis erecta M.Hotta

Herb to c. 30 cm tall. Stem erect to decumbent, c. 5 mm diam., with internodes to 1.5 cm long, epigeal, pleionanthic. Leaves c. 6 along the stem; petiole to c. 11 cm long, slender, sheathing only at the extreme base, the wings of the sheath extended into a linearlanceolate ligular portion to 4 cm long; blade oblong-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 10–15 cm long × 2–3.5 cm wide, the base acute and somewhat decurrent, the apex acute and rather abruptly acuminate for c. 2 cm; midrib abaxially prominent, adaxially grooved, with c. 8 primary lateral veins on each side, alternating with lesser interprimaries and diverging at c. 60°; secondary venation abaxially rather inconspicuous, adaxially more or less obscure, arising from the midrib; tertiary venation obscure. Inflorescence solitary; peduncle c. 6 cm long, slender, apically curved bringing the inflorescence subhorizontal. Spathe c. 5 cm long; lower spathe subcylindric, c. 2 cm long, differentiated from the limb by the abrupt inflation of the latter; limb c. 3 cm long, ellipsoid in the lower 2⁄5 (corresponding to male zone of spadix), then abruptly and narrowly acuminate in the remainder, ?caducous (not observed). Spadix shorter than spathe, c. 3 cm long, more or less hourglass-shaped; female zone conoid, adnate to the spathe in the lower half, 1.5 cm long; pistils crowded, obovoid, c. 1 mm diam. (fresh; 0.5 mm diam. dry); stigma button-like, sessile, about ½ the diameter of the fresh ovary; interpistillar staminodes confined to a row along the spathe/spadix adnation, about the height of the pistils, stipitate, flattopped, c. 1 mm diam.; sterile interstice obconoid, c. 5 mm long, composed of crowded, columnar staminodes c. 0.6 mm diam.; male zone obovoid, c. 1.7 cm long, distally 1 cm diam., apically rounded; stamens crowded, truncate with the connective thick and slightly raise above the thecae and deeply channelled across the top between the pores, c. 0.75 mm across, very bluntly rhomboid; pores paired at each end of the anther, bordered by raised rims; appendix absent. Infructescence unknown.