Schismatoglottis pyrrhias A.Hay

Herb to c. 60 cm tall. Stem condensed, c. 2 cm diam., pleionanthic. Leaves c. 8 together; petiole to c. 40 cm long, dark purplish red and thickly covered in coarse more or less filamentous hairs c. 1 mm long, sheathing only at the extreme base, the wings of the sheath extended into a ligular narrowly triangular abaxially densely hairy portion c. 4 cm long; blade ovate to oblong ovate, 25-30 cm long × 12-14 cm wide, the base shallowly and narrowly or widely cordate, with posterior lobes to 3 cm long, the tip acute to obtuse and acuminate for c. 3 cm; midrib abaxially prominent, adaxially flush with the lamina, with about 20 fine primary lateral veins on each side, alternating with lesser interprimaries and diverging at c. 60°; secondary venation arising from the midrib and mostly pinnately from the primary venation especially in the lower part of the blade; midrib, primary and secondary venation abaxially densely hairy like the petiole; tertiary venation obscure, glabrous. Inflorescence ?solitary, subtended by narrowly triangular cataphylls resembling the ligular sheath extension; peduncle c. 2.5 cm long, densely hairy; spathe at least 3 cm long (incompletely preserved); lower spathe 1.3 cm long, ?not differentiated from the limb by a constriction; limb incompletely preserved, ?somewhat persistent. Spadix 3 cm long, subcylindric, c. 4 mm thick (dry); female zone not adnate to the spathe, 8 mm long; pistils unobservable except stigmas; stigmas sessile, button-like to discoid, papillate, more or less contiguous, c. 0.5 mm diam.; interpistillar staminodes not observed; sterile interstice c. 2 mm long, c. 2 whorls of staminodes drying black; male zone c. 7 mm long; stamens mostly in rather loosely arranged adnate pairs with the connective elevated into narrowly pyramidal flat-topped peaks about twice the height of the thecae, about 0.25 cm across; appendix pale orange, subcylindric, 1.3 cm long, apically abruptly tapering to a bluntly acute tip; staminodes of appendix irregularly polygonal, flat-topped and centrally impressed, c. 0.5 mm diam. Fruit unknown.