Schismatoglottis monoplacenta M.Hotta

Herb to c. 60 cm tall. Stem condensed, c. 1.5 cm thick, pleionanthic. Leaves few together; petiole 20–30 cm long, sheathing at extreme base, but extended into a tapering papery ligular portion to 13 cm long; blade elliptic to oblong elliptic, somewhat coriaceous, c. 30 cm long × 13 cm wide, the base obtuse and slightly decurrent on the petiole, the tip acute and mucronate for c. 1.8 cm; primary lateral veins c. 14 on each side of midrib, alternating with lesser interprimary veins; secondary venation fine and dense. Inflorescences 4 together, subtended by linear-lanceolate cataphylls to 8 cm long; peduncle c. 13 cm long. Spathe slender, c. 9 cm long; lower spathe narrowly ovoid, 3 cm long, differentiated from the limb by a weak constriction; limb lanceolate, c. 6 cm long, caducous. Spadix sessile, subcylindric, slightly attenuate at sterile interstice, c. 6.5 cm long, 6 mm diam; female zone 2.5 cm long, adnate to the spathe for half its length; pistils broadly ovoid; stigma sessile, discoid, slightly narrower than ovary; interpistillar staminodes scattered among pistils, white-tipped, brown-stalked, clavate with the top somewhat vertically compressed, arranged in a single row along the spathe/spadix adnation, not concentrated in distal portion of female zone; sterile interstice c. 3 mm long, composed of sterile stamens; male zone 2 cm long; stamens close-packed c. 1 mm across, rectangular-dumbbell-shaped; truncate with the connective slightly exceeding the thecae; appendix 2.1 cm long, cylindric, blunttipped; staminodes of the appendix somewhat smaller than the stamens, more or less rectangular from above. Fruiting spathe narrowly urceolate.