Plants small, epiphytic, the caudex elongate, sometimes 1 cm. thick but usually much more slender, the internodes mostly elongate; cataphylls deciduous, obtuse, 4-5 cm. long, 5-6 mm. wide; petioles slender,, short-vaginate, 5-9 cm. long, geniculate about 1 cm. below the apex, the node slender; blades coriaceous when dried, thick and succulent in the living state, oblong-lanceolate, 5-12.5 cm. long, 2.5-4 cm. wide, rather abruptly caudate-attenuate, acute at the base, the primary lateral nerves 7-9 on each side, very slender and inconspicuous, erect-patent, united to form an inconspicuous, slender collective nerve near the margin; peduncles slender, twice as long as the petioles or shorter, up to 15 cm. long, the stipitiform portion 1.5-3 cm. long; spathe linear-lanceolate, acuminate, long-decurrent on the peduncle, 7-8 cm. long or shorter, 1 cm. wide, pale green; spadix at anthesis 4-5 cm. long, in fruit 8 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick, obtuse; sepals 2.5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, dull purplish; ovary ovoid, 2 mm. long, the stigma sub-sessile; berries short-ovoid, pale green, 1-or 2-seeded, 3 mm. long and thick; seeds oblong, 1.5 mm. long.
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