Schismatoglottis gui P.C. Boyce & S.Y. Wong

Small, dense-clumping evergreen, mesophytic herbs to 20 cm tall. Stem much-abbreviated, epigeal, erect, densely leafy. Leaves spreading, thinly chartaceous, ca 6 per module but modules very closely aggregated, subtended by a short, stiff prophyll ca 2 cm long, with the prophyll sheath wings hyaline and transparent; petioles up to 4.5 cm long, sheathing for ca 1/2 their length, ascending, petiole above the petiolar sheath carinate, the dorsal edges sharp, petiole dull dark green; petiolar sheath persistent, margins hyaline, more-or-less transparent, open, tips oblique with one side extended into a rounded auricle ca 3 mm long; blade up to 20 × 3 cm, very narrowly elliptic, base decurrent to weakly cuneate, apex long-attenuate, tip truncate, with a very short tubular mucro, bright green on first emerging, maturing deep semi-glossy green adaxially, matte pale green abaxially; midrib conspicuous, bluntly raised adaxially, rounded-raised abaxially; primary lateral veins about 5 per side, weakly impressed adaxially, slightly raised abaxially; interprimary veins barely distinguishable from the much less numerous primaries; secondary conspicuously tessellate abaxially and darker than surrounding tissue, weakly raised adaxially. Inflorescences up to 6 together, produced sequentially in a very dense synflorescence that barely extends from the subtending petiolar sheath, individual inflorescences alternating with much reduced leaves; peduncle slender, very short, ca 3 mm long × 1 mm wide, not emerging from the sheath, white; spathe weakly constricted; lower spathe ellipsoid, ca 1 cm long × 3 mm wide, somewhat fleshy, very pale green; spathe limb narrowly triangular, ca 3 cm long, of which ca 1 cm a slender stiff rostrum, spathe limb opening only slightly, weakly inflating during anthesis to form a narrow slit the length mid-portion of the spathe limb, limb white, rostrum green, limb soon deliquescing to ca half way down (not to the constriction), into a brownish white slime, lower spathe persisting. Spadix shorter than the spathe, ca 3.2 cm long, sessile; pistillate flower zone ca 1/4 the length of the spadix, ca 6mm × 3 mm, weakly obconic; pistils somewhat dense, compressed-globose with three or four distinct sutures, ca 0.9 × 0.6 mm, pale green; style very short, narrower than the ovary; stigma ca ¼ width of the ovary, impressed, capitate, greyish white, papillate at pistillate anthesis; interpistillar staminodes absent below the pistillate flower zone; interstice ca 2 mm long, slightly narrower than the pistillate flower zone, covered with mushroom-shaped staminodes ca 1 mm diam., the tops  rounded, dull white; staminate flower  zone ca 7mm × 3mm, obconic, waxy white;  staminate flowers very densely arranged,  seemingly 2-staminate, but very difficult to  distinguish individual flowers; stamens  globose, vaguely dumbbell shaped,  connective embedded and ± invisible;  thecae opening by a tiny single pore;  appendix ca 1cm long, slender-pointed, composed of irregularly oval staminodes, these shallowly concave with a raised rim, ivory. Infructescence enclosed within a  fleshy persistent spathe, the orifice of which is only slightly constricted and does not  coincide with the spathe constriction; fruits  not observed.