Aglaonema brevispathum (Engl.) Engl.

Small to medium-sized, solitary to clump-forming herb to 30 cm tall. Stem repent and often branching, 0.5–1.0 cm thick. Leaves few together, each subtended by a pale green membranaceous cataphyll, this soon marcescent brown and papery, commonly clasping the petiole for most of its length; petioles 7–33 cm × 0.5–1.6 mm; petiolar sheath very short, ca 1 cm long, open; leaf blade lanceolate, rarely narrowly elliptic, 10–24 × 3.9–8 cm, base rounded or broadly acute, often unequal, apex usually acute to acuminate, coriaceous, either plain green or variegated in the form of a central white stripe, with scattered white spots; primary lateral veins 4–7 per side; higher order venation striate. Inflorescence solitary; peduncle 5.5–15.5 cm, usually 1/3–3/4 petiole length, erect; spathe ovate, spreading at staminate anthesis, then closing, 1.5–3.5 cm, apex apiculate, base decurrent for 0.5–1.3 cm, white, marcescent late in fruit development; spadix ellipsoidal, 1.2–2.5 cm × ca 8 mm, equalling to slightly exceeding spathe, stipitate, stipe 2–10 mm; pistillate flower zone ca 1/5 the length of the spadix, 2–5 mm long, with fewer than 10 flowers; staminate flower zone ca 4/5 of the length of the spadix, 1–2 cm × 0.3–0.6 cm; fruits ellipsoidal, 1.2–1.7 × 0.5–1.0 cm, ripening deep red.