Culcasia brevipetiolata Bogner

Plant climbing, about 1 m long (according to the collector’s notes, but probably several metres long). Stem with long internodes, these 5 – 6 cm long and 2 – 3 mm in diam., a little thicker below the petioles. Leaves many on the shoot; petiole short, 1.8 – 2.6 cm long, including a sheath of 1.6 – 2 × 0.4 – 0.5 cm sometimes with short hairs in upper part, flattened, apex ± round, petiole above the sheath only 3 – 4 mm long and canaliculate with sharp margins, 1.5 – 1.8 mm in diam. Leaf blade ovate, oblique, thinly leathery (after the collector’s notes), 7 – 8 × 4 – 5 cm, base rounded to subcordate, apex acute to shortly cuspidate; venation reticulate, midvein strong, primary lateral veins 3 – 5(– 6) on each side, running towards the apex, second order veins thinner and reticulated, third order veins much thinner and somewhat inconspicuous. Cataphylls c. 1 × 0.5 cm, apex acute. Peduncle 1.3 – 1.5 cm long and 1.5 – 1.8 mm in diam. Spathe not constricted, ± boat-shaped, pale green-yellow (after the collector’s notes), 1.2 – 1.5 cm long, apex acute. Spadix c. 1 cm long and c. 3 mm in diam.; female zone 3 – 4 mm long and c. 4 mm in diam., female flowers 8 – 9 in two spiral rows; male zone 6 – 7 mm long and 3 – 4 mm in diam. Flowers unisexual; male flowers 1.6 – 2 mm in diam. (viewed from above), consisting of 3 – 4 stamens; female flowers 1.8 – 2 mm in diam. (viewed from above), ovary depressed-globose, 1.6 – 2 mm in diam., stigma sessile, 1.2 – 1.4 mm in diam., slightly lobed, dark coloured. Berry depressed-globose, 8 – 10 mm in diam., orange-red (after the collector’s notes), with persistent stigma remnant.