Schismatoglottis jelandii P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong

Facultative rheophytic herb to c. 30 cm tall, solitary or forming small clumps. Stem condensed, erect, to c. 1 cm diam., pleionanthic; internodes obscured by overlapping leaf bases, not conspicuous. Leaves several together (c. 10 per plant); petiole D-shaped in cross-section, 2–4(–7) cm long, c.1/3 the length of the lamina, sheathing in the lower 1/3–2/3, asperulate, narrowly crispulate-alate on each side on the adaxial face; petiolar sheath adnate to petiole for the greater part, then free-auriculate at the top for c. 1 cm, broad and subparallel, the margins inrolled; blade narrowly obovate, thinly subsucculent, 15–21(–26) x 2–4(–5) cm, lustrous deep green adaxially variegated with two longitudinal zones of diffuse greenish white blotches, matt pale brownish yellow-green abaxially, the base slightly obliquely truncate, the tip attenuate and apiculate for c. 2 mm; midrib not prominent adaxially, prominently raised abaxially; primary lateral veins c. 9 on each side, alternating with slightly to considerably lesser interprimaries, diverging at c. 30°; secondary conspicuously tessellate (abaxially); tertiary venation not visible. Inflorescences two together, subtended by one narrow prophyll and one broad cataphyll; peduncle short, not exserted from leaf bases. Spathe 5.5–7.5 cm long, subcylindric, tapering distally, weakly rounded-truncate basally; lower spathe 1.5–2.5 cm long, ovoid, flushed pale pink, hardly differentiated from the limb by a barely perceptible constriction corresponding with the upper part of the fertile male zone; limb 3.5–6 cm long, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, dirty white flushed and slightly veined pale pink, spreading at onset of female anthesis then crumbling-deliquescent at late male anthesis. Spadix sessile, somewhat shorter than the spathe, to 5.5 cm long; female zone 0.6–1 cm long, with oblique to very shortly adnate (to spathe) insertion, 0.4 cm diam. at base, weakly conoid; pistils crowded, oblong-barrel-shaped, c.1 mm tall, 0.75 mm diam.; stigma sessile, discoid, weakly umbonate, papillate, fractionally wider than ovary and + contiguous with neighbouring stigmas; interpistillar staminodes few, claviform, scattered among the pistils, slightly taller than the pistils, c.0.5mm diam.; sterile interstice 3–8 mm long, slightly wider with top of female and base of male zones, 4–5 whorls of irregularly polygonal staminodes c. 0.5 mm diam., separated from the female zone by a row of more slender staminodes; male zone c. 0.8 mm long, cylindric, fractionally wider at the junction of the appendix; stamens orange (even before anthesis) crowded, truncate with the thick connective slightly elevated above the thecae, more or less rectangular from above; pollen extruded in short strands; appendix pale pink, about one and a half the length of the rest of the spadix, widest c. half way up, then gradually tapering to a rather narrow blunt tip, 2.5–3.5 cm long, 4–6 mm diam.; staminodes of appendix more or less flat-topped, irregularly polygonal, 0.75–1mm diam., densely crowded (fresh). Fruiting spathe not observed.