Aspidoglossum restioides (Schltr.) Kupicha

Plants 50-70 cm tall, stems simple or rarely branched. Leaves opposite, shorter than internodes (usually conspicuously so); lamina 1-3 x 0.05-0.1 cm; surfaces glabrous or minutely brown-glandular. Flowers 2-5 per node, sessile, brownish. Calyx segments 2.5-3.5 x 1-1.5 mm, leathery, scarcely expanded at anthesis; dorsal surface sparsely pilose with brown glandular hairs; ventral surface glabrous. Corona lobes 2-4 mm long (or smaller and undeveloped), each comprising an ovate or oblong basal lobe usually bifid at apex, subtending a linear, variously curved ventral appendage longer than the basal lobe. Corpusculum 0-5-1 mm long, glistening and conspicuous, larger than the pollinia; translator arms not flattened; pollinium 0.45-0.6 mm long, reniform, without apparent germination zone. Mature fruit unknown; young fruit dark brown pubescent, without bristles.