Schismatoglottis sarikeensis
Rheophytic? herb to c. 20 cm tall. Stem condensed, 0.5–0.8 cm diam. Leaves several together; petiole 6–12 cm long, slender, adaxially canaliculate especially in distal part, sheathing only at extreme base, the wings extended into a very narrowly triangular ligular portion 4–7 cm long, green tinged red, drying brown; blade very narrowly elliptic, 10–14 cm long × 1–2.5 cm wide, adaxially glossy dark green, paler abaxially, the base cuneate, the apex acuminate to caudate for 1.5–3 cm; midrib abaxially prominent, adaxially flush with the lamina to slightly impressed, with 5–6 extremely fine (barely differentiated from secondary venation) primary lateral veins on each side, diverging at c. 45°; secondary venation faintly prominent adaxially, fine and dense; tertiary venation obscure. Inflorescence solitary; peduncle 7–8 cm long. Spathe slightly nodding (down-curved in lower part), 5–6 cm long; lower spathe narrowly ovoid, slightly down-curved, green, 1.5–2 cm long, differentiated from the limb by a constriction; limb white, caducous, more or less lanceolate, somewhat inflated over the spadix, thence narrowed into a beaked tip. Spadix subcylindric, 3–3.5 cm long; female zone 1–1.2 cm long, adnate to the spathe, c. 3 mm diam.; pistils subglobose, c. 1 mm diam.; stigma sessile, discoid, c. 0.4 mm diam., papillate; interpistillar staminodes absent from among the pistils, confined to a row along the spathe/spadix adnation, stipitate, weakly clavate, slightly exceeding the pistils; sterile interstice confined to about 2 irregular whorls of sterile stamens at the base of the male zone; male zone c. 1 cm long, wider than the female zone, c. 0.5 cm diam.; stamens crowded, truncate, flat-topped, rather irregular in shape and size, ellipsoid to dumbbell-shaped from above, c. 0.5 mm across, partially to completely connate into groups of 2–3; appendix bullet-shaped, basally isodiametric with top of male zone, distally tapering and finally narrowly obtuse, c. 0.5 cm long; staminodes of appendix columnar, flattopped, faintly impressed, c. 0.5 mm diam., often united to the top into curved or sinuous groups. Fruiting spathe narrowly urceolate.
Malesia: endemic to Borneo (Sarawak); known only from the locality from which the type plant was collected.
Not recorded.