Piptospatha brevipedunculata (H.Okada & Y.Mori) Bogner & A.Hay

Herb to c. 30 cm tall. Stem condensed, to c. 4.5 cm long and 0.8-1.5 cm diam., with strong roots to 2-3 mm diam. Leaves numerous, crowded; petiole (8-)15-20(-35) cm long, 1.5-2.5 mm diam., canaliculate adaxially, sheathing at the extreme base, the wings of the sheath extended into a narrowly triangular, membranous, ligular portion 1.5-4 cm long, drying brown; blade coriaceous, shining green, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, (7-)10-18 cm long × (1.4-)2-2.5 cm wide, the base cuneate and somewhat decurrent, the apex acuminate and apiculate for (2-)4-6 mm, the margin thickened and recurved; midrib abaxially very prominent, somewhat prominent adaxially; primary lateral veins not or hardly differentiated from the secondary venation, adaxially inconspicuous, numerous and dense - c. 1 mm apart, diverging at c. 30° and running to a marginal vein; tertiary venation obscure. Inflorescence solitary, erect; peduncle much shorter than the petiole, 1.2-3 cm long, 1-1.8 mm diam. Spathe white, 3-4 cm long, 5-7 mm wide, apiculate for 2-3 mm, persistent in the lower c. ?, the upper part falling after anthesis. Spadix 2.5-3.5 cm long, sessile; female zone c. 5 mm long, c. 4 mm diam.; ovary depressed-globular, c. 1.5 mm diam.; stigma sessile, discoid, centrally somewhat impressed, c. 1 mm diam.; interpistillar staminodes not observed; sterile interstice isodiametric with the fertile zones, c. 5 mm long; male zone subcylindric, 0.8-1.3 cm long, 5 mm diam.; stamens crowded, not regularly arranged, weakly dumbbell-shaped from above, flat-topped, c. 1 mm across, with conspicuous circular pores; appendix tapering to an obtuse point, 1-1.3 cm long, basally c. 5 mm diam.; staminodes of appendix flat-topped, irregularly polygonal, 1-1.5 mm diam. Fruiting spathe 2-2.5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide; berry c. 4 mm diam., crowned with persistent stigma remnants; seed subglobular, c. 1 × 1 mm, ribbed, brown, with a transparent micropylar appendage c. 0.8 mm long.