Stylochaeton malaissei Bogner

Plant with dormant stage; 40 – 50 cm tall, with fibrous cataphyll remnants at base. Rhizome erect, 2 – 4 cm long and 1 – 1.4 cm in diam., with very thick roots (tuberous after the collector’s notes). Leaves only one to two or three; petiole (17 –)20 – 30 cm long, above 3 – 4 mm in diam. and in basal part (including sheath) 5 – 10 mm wide, sheath 8 – 12 cm long with its lower part maculate, upper part of petiole green; leaf blade lanceolate, 18 – 23 × 5 – 7.5 cm, base cuneate, apex acute; venation reticulate, midvein very well-developed, primary lateral veins 6 – 7 on each side and running towards the apex, second order veins thinner and between the primary ones, forming a ± irregular net, with very thin third order veins between them. Cataphylls 5 – 9.5 cm long, apex acuminate, outside maculate and inside uniformly light coloured (whitish). Inflorescence unknown. Infructescence ± hypogeous (after the collector’s notes), somewhat ellipsoid, c. 1.3 cm long and 0.8 (immature?) – 1.4 cm in diam., with three (or two) spiral rows of fruits, without any spathe remnants; peduncle short, 2 – 2.5 cm long and 2 – 3 mm in diam.; berries c. 15 in one infructescence (in one specimen only 10 – 12); berry ± globose to somewhat depressed-globose, white (after the collector’s note), 3 – 4 mm (immature?) or 5 – 6(– 7) mm in diam., with short style and stigma remnant somewhat sunken in the centre, style c. 0.5 mm long, stigma (0.8 –)1 – 1.2(– 1.4) mm in diam.; seed ellipsoid to ovoid, 2.4 – 2.6 mm long and c. 1.5 mm in diam., testa costate and dark brown, endosperm copious and pure white, embryo small.