Schismatoglottis schottii Bogner & Nicolson

Small herb to c. 25 cm tall. Stem slender, somewhat elongate, ?erect, pleionanthic, c. 3 mm diam. (dry), internodes c. 4 mm long. Leaves c. 4 together; petiole to 7 cm long, shorter than the blade, slender, sheathing only at the extreme base but with the sheath extended into a linear-lanceolate ligular portion to 6 cm long; blade narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 13–16 cm long × 2–4.5 cm wide, the base cuneate, the tip gradually to abruptly acuminate for 1.5 cm including a 3–4 mm cylindric mucro; midrib abaxially somewhat prominent, not raised adaxially; primary lateral veins c. 8 on each side of midrib, alternating with lesser interprimary veins and diverging at c. 60°; secondary veins fine and dense, arising from the midrib. Inflorescence 1–2 together, subtended by lanceolate cataphylls to 3.5 cm long and mucronate (reduced petiole) near base; peduncle very slender, c. 5 cm long apically rather sharply bent to bring the spathe and spadix subhorizontal. Spathe green, c. 3 cm long; lower spathe very narrowly subcylindric-obconoid, c. 1.3 cm long, 2.5 mm diam. (dry), differentiated from the limb by a weak constriction; limb inflated over spadix apex then abruptly narrowly acuminate for 1 cm, caducous. Spadix c. 2 cm long, sessile; female zone 1.2–1.4 cm long, adnate to the spathe in the lower half, very narrowly obconoid, to 2 mm diam. (dry) at apex; pistils crowded, ovary subglobose, longitudinally somewhat 4-ribbed, c. 0.5 mm diam.; stigma sessile, discoid, papillate, c. 0.3 mm across; interpistillar staminodes more or less mushroom-shaped, confined to a single oblique basal row along each side of the spathe/spadix adnation; sterile interstice c. 1.5 mm long × 2 mm wide, two or three irregular whorls of sterile stamens; male zone clavate, c. 6 mm long × 4 mm wide; stamens crowded, rectangular-dumbbell-shaped, truncate with the connective slightly mounded between the thecae and the margins slightly raised; pores conspicuous, paired at each end of the stamen; appendix absent. Fruiting spathe more or less narrowly urceolate.