A small, epiphytic vine, the caudex slender, its internodes mostly 4-5 cm. long; petioles almost as long as the blades, vaginate to within about 1.5 cm. of the apex, geniculate 1 cm. below the base of the blade; blades subcoriaceous and usually fuscous when dried, obliquely oblong, 10-20 cm. long, 3.5-8.5 cm. wide, short-acuminate, very oblique at the base, the primary lateral nerves slender, few, ex-tending to the margin; peduncles slender, 10 cm. long or less; spathe broadly oblong, 4-5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide; spadix sessile, cylindric, 3-5 cm. long, in fruit almost 2 cm. thick but at anthesis about 8 mm. thick, obtuse; stamens slightly more than half as long as the pistil, spatulate, the anther cells ovoid, divergent; pistil cylindric.
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