Cyrtosperma carrii A.Hay

Herb to 55 cm high. Leaves several, hastate, armed on petiole and underside and margins of blade; petioles to 50 cm long with a sheath 11 cm long; lamina to 40 cm long, coriaceous; spines sparse, straight to very slightly curved, to 5 mm long; anterior lobe oblong, gradually acuminate, subequalling the posterior lobes; anterior cos-tae 2, emerging near the sinus, curvinerved, running to the margin near the tip; posterior midribs naked in the sinus for c. 3 cm, broadly lanceolate. Spathe broadly ovate, clasping in the lower fifth, c. 12 cm long and to 8 cm wide (flattened), deep reddish brown with yellow, widely reticulate venation persisting as a 'skeleton' around the fruiting spadix; spadix with a 4 mm stipe adnate to the spathe, fertile part c. 25 cm long and 5 mm wide. Flowers tetramerous; anthers not exserted from the tepals at male anthesis; stigmas raised c. 1-2 mm on the conical apex of the ovary; fruit ovoid, capped by the style and stigma. Seed smooth.