Schismatoglottis josefii A.Hay

Very small herb to 15 cm tall. Stem condensed, suberect , c. 3 cm long, c. 6 mm diam., pleionanthic. Leaves 5 together; petiole slender, to 7 cm long, shorter than the blade, sheathing only at the extreme base, but sheath extended into a tapering bicarinate ligular portion to 3.2 cm long; blade narrowly lanceolate, to 11.5 cm long × 1.1 cm wide, the base cuneate, the apex indistinctly acuminate for 1.2 cm including a 2 mm cylindric mucro; midrib prominent adaxially and abaxially; primary lateral veins extremely fine, adaxially impressed, abaxially almost indistinguishable from secondary veins (hand lens required), 3 on each side of midrib, subopposite, diverging at c. 30°; secondary venation adaxially obscure, abaxially very fine and dense, arising from the midrib. Inflorescence solitary, subtended by lanceolate cataphylls to 3 cm long; peduncle much shorter than the petioles and not exceeding the cataphylls, 2 cm long. Spathe 2 cm long, green; lower spathe subcylindric, 5 mm long, differentiated from the limb by a very weak constriction; limb 1.5 cm long, somewhat inflated over the appendix of the spadix, then acuminate for 6 mm, ?caducous; female zone slender, 4 mm long, mostly adnate to the spathe; pistils crowded; ovary subglobose, c. 0.5 mm diam.; stigma sessile, about half the diameter of the ovary, button-like, very weakly 3–4- lobed, papillate; interpistillar staminodes confined to a single row along each side of the spathe/spadix adnation, stalked, flat-topped, about the same height as the pistils; sterile interstice c. 1 mm long, somewhat wider than the female zone, 1–2 irregular whorls of centrally impressed sterile stamens; male zone 3 mm long × 1.7 mm thick; stamens crowded; anthers truncate, irregularly rectangular, c. 0.25 mm across, with the connective somewhat dilated and sometimes expanded on one side; thecae somewhat raised above the connective; appendix 5 mm long, ellipsoid-clavate, formed of flattopped irregularly discoid staminodes c. 0.5 mm across. Fruit unknown.