Aspidoglossum dissimile (N.E.Br.) Kupicha

Plants 6-20 cm tall, stems simple or sparsely branched. Leaves irregularly and fairly densely arranged below, verticillate in the inflorescence; lamina 1.8-3 x 0.2-0.8 cm, linear or linear-lanceolate; both surfaces pilose. Flowers 3-5 per node, colour unknown; pedicels 6-12 mm long. Calyx segments 2-3.5 x 1-1.5 mm, pilose with hyaline or brownish hairs. Corolla lobes 4.5-5 x 2.5 mm, reflexed and flat or replicate at anthesis; lower surface pilose with stiff patent hyaline or fine brown appressed hairs, upper surface glabrous or densely pubescent. Corona 3.5-4 mm high, of type B; basal lobe 1-2 mm high, ± cordate in dorsal view with cristate shoulders and often a median apical tooth, bearing a single slender ventral appendage that curves up and back over the lobe. Corpusculum 0.25-0.38 mm long; pollinium 0.48-0.88 mm long with germination zone conspicuous or not. Fruit unknown.