Piptospatha kinabaluensis (Bogner) Bogner & A.Hay

Diminutive to moderately robust herb 10-50 cm tall. Stem condensed, 1-10 cm long, 0.4-1.5 cm diam., sometimes reddish. Leaves few together; petiole 2.5-30 cm long, 0.9-3 mm diam., sheathing only at the extreme base, the wings extended into a narrowly triangular ligular portion 2-16 cm long; blade coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to ovate, 3-21 cm long × 1.3-9.5 cm wide, the base cuneate, the apex acute to shortly acuminate and apiculate for 1-4 mm; midrib robust, abaxially somewhat prominent, with (3-)4-12 primary lateral veins on each side, in very robust specimens more or less regularly alternating with lesser interprimaries, diverging at c. 60°; secondary venation fine, adaxially more or less obscure; tertiary venation forming a faint tessellate reticulum abaxially. Inflorescence solitary; peduncle 4-18 cm long, slender. Spathe 1.6-2 cm long (to 3.2 cm in fruit), reddish, persistent, held more or less erect, more or less obovoid, apiculate for 1-4 mm. Spadix 1.5-1.8 cm long, obliquely adnate to the spathe at the base; female zone 6-8 mm long, c. 3 mm diam.; pistils 1-1.2 mm high, c. 0.6-0.8 mm diam.; ovary ellipsoid, with basal placentation; stigma sessile, discoid, slightly narrower than the ovary, c. 0.5 mm diam.; interpistillar staminodes absent from within, below or above the female zone; interstice absent; male zone 0.9-1 cm long, more or less ellipsoid, apically obtuse; stamens crowded, truncate, elongate to more or less rectangular from above, papillate, 0.8-0.9 mm across. Fruits completely included within the persistent spathe; berry depressed-globular, 2-4.5 mm diam., crowned by old stigma remnants; seed elongate, 2-3 mm long, brown, longitudinally ribbed, with a curved long translucent micropylar appendage up to twice the length of the seed.