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Araceae
Schismatoglottis pudenda A.Hay
SUMMARY
Herb to c. 25 cm tall. Stem? Leaf number unknown; petiole shorter than the blade, c. 9 cm long, sheathing only at the extreme base [probably with long ligular portion - the apex of the attached portion broken away]; blade coriaceous, adaxially variegated about the midrib with a narrow irregular band of grey-green, narrowly lanceolate, 25 cm long × 2.5 cm wide, widest slightly less than half way from the base, very gradually tapering distally and proximally, the base decurrent, the tip apiculate for c. 4 mm, the margins slightly revolute (dry); midrib abaxially and adaxially prominent, with 4 abaxially prominent, adaxially impressed primary lateral veins on each side, alternating with lesser interprimaries and diverging at c. 30°; secondary and tertiary venation more or less obscure. Inflorescence ?solitary; peduncle?; spathe 5.5 cm long; lower spathe 3.5 cm long, narrowly ovoid, differentiated from the limb by a distinct constriction; limb 2 cm long, oblong, finally acute and apiculate for 3 mm, caducous. Spadix 5 cm long, sessile, slender subcylindric; female zone 1.4 cm long × 4 mm thick, almost completely adnate to the spathe; pistils depressed subglobose, somewhat lax, c. 1 mm diam. (the basal ones becoming slightly narrower); stigma sessile, discoid, papillate, c. 0.7 mm diam.; interpistillar staminodes scattered among the pistils and forming an incomplete row along the spathe/spadix adnation, subcylindric to narrowly clavate, more or less round-tipped, slightly taller than the pistils; male zone contiguous with the female but for an incomplete whorl of more or less sterile anthers (reduced thecae), held completely or almost completely (4/5) within the lower spathe chamber, more or less cylindric, c. 1.6 cm long, 2.5 mm diam.; stamens crowded, truncate, more or less dumbbell-shaped, with the thecal rims raised slightly above the connective, c. 1 mm across; appendix 2 cm long, cylindric, basally isodiametric with the male zone, the tip acute; staminodes of the appendix flat-topped, irregularly polygonal, c. 0.7 mm diam. Fruit unknown.