Chlorophytum malayense Ridl.

Roots sometimes bearing tubers 3-4 mm or more long. Leaves 3-10, sublinear or indistinctly petioled and with a lanceolate lamina, channelled towards the base, with a rather prominent midrib, suberect, glabrous, (10-)25-60 by (0.5-)l-5(-10) cm, never forming fibrous sheaths round the base of the plant. Peduncle glabrous or less often glandular pubescent, with 0-∞ branches (30-)40-50(?-90) cm high. Lower bracts up to 9 cm long, usually narrowly lanceolate-acuminate, usually partly scarious; the lowest usually sterile. Pedicels usually 2-3-nate, less often solitary, erect-spreading, not recurving in fruit, 3-10 mm. Perianth segments white, elliptic to linear-oblong, 7-12 by 2-3 mm. Filaments occasionally minutely pubescent, 4-5 mm (not always similar in length but neither whorl regularly longer than the other); anthers 4-5 mm long. Ovary c. 1.5-1 mm long, obovoid or globose; style 3-4(-8, Gagnepain, 1934) mm; ovules 4-6 per locule. Capsule globose, strongly emarginate and very deeply 3-lobed, c. 5-8 mm ø.

This is usually a forest (including bamboo, oak, pine) species, often associated with limestone, 50-1500 m. Fl. Jan.-Dec.