Anadendrum badium P.C.Boyce

Evergreen, medium-sized, slender lianescent secondary hemiepiphyte to 1.5 m. Stem (adult) root-climbing. Leaves distichous, scattered on climbing shoots, congested into loose fans at shoot tips where flowering occurs; petiole pulvinate apically, 6–12 cm; petiolar sheath extending to the base of the pulvinus, membranous and very soon marcescent and entirely falling; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, somewhat falcate, oblique, 11–24 × 4–8 cm, base subacute, apex acuminate, briefly apiculate, medium green above, paler below when fresh, drying uniformly chestnut brown; primary lateral veins pinnate, ca 6 per side, arising alternately from either side of the midrib, running into marginal vein; interprimary veins more or less invisible; higher order venation reticulate. Inflorescence 1–3 in each floral sympodium; peduncle erect, exceeding petiole, 11–14 cm, each subtended by membranous, later papery cataphylls and the whole synflorescence subtended by several such cataphylls; spathe oblong-lanceolate, apex strongly rostrate, base very weakly contracted onto the stipe, spathe limb gaping, then reflexed at anthesis, then soon caducous, ca 3 × 1.5 cm, creamy yellow; spadix stipitate; fertile portion ca 3 × 0.5 cm, creamy at anthesis, green afterwards; stipe ca 1 cm, green; flowers bisexual, perigone membranous, just exceeding the gynoecium; stamens with short, broadly linear filaments; anthers shorter than filaments; gynoecium obpyramidal, tetragonal, stylar region 2.5 × 2.5 mm, rhomboidal, truncate, stigma transverse-linear; fruit a subglobose truncate-topped berry, green when immature, bright glossy red with black stigmatic remains when ripe.