Rhaphidophora australasica F.M.Bailey

Moderately robust bole-climber, occasionally scrambling over rocks, to c. 30 m tall, without free lateral shoots. Leaves: petiole generally somewhat shorter than blade, sheathing to geniculum; sheath degrading to papery fibres then falling away altogether; blade oblanceolate-elliptic, slightly falcate, to c. 40 cm long × c. 14 cm wide, glossy green above, dull below, somewhat coriaceous; primary venation not strongly differentiated from secondary. Inflorescences solitary or 2 together, smelling of decomposing plant matter; spathe c. (6–) 10–15 cm long, cream to greenish cream; spadix c. ½–¾ length of spathe, sessile to shortly stipitate. Ovary topped with conic style to c. 0.6 m long; stigma punctate to transversely shortly linear. Fruiting spadix to c. 11 cm long, orange after dehiscence.

Found inareas supporting lowland and lower montane rainforest, in forest and regrowth,from sea level to c. 1000 m alt. 

It can be grown from cuttings.