Herbs, stoloniferous, 15-60 cm tall. Petiole 5-50 cm, smooth, proximal 1/3 sheathing, sheath persistent; leaf blade mid-green, sometimes variegated, cordate to sagittate, 7-35 × 4-18 cm; midrib abaxially prominent, primary lateral veins 6-15 per side, entirely raised abaxially, nearly always raised adaxially toward midrib, marginally impressed, secondary venation arising mostly from midrib. Inflorescences 1-8 together; peduncle erect at anthesis, then deflexed, 6-20 cm. Spathe 3.5-12 cm, basal part green, narrowly ovoid, ca. 1/2 length of whole spathe limb, differentiated by an abrupt constriction, at female anthesis much inflated, creamy to pale greenish yellow, narrowing and turbinate, completely surrounding spadix and gaping ventrally or with margins loosely overlapping, conspicuously mucronate at apex, caducous immediately after female anthesis. Spadix ca. 3/4 length of spathe, narrowly hourglass-shaped; female zone ca. 1/2 length of spadix, obliquely inserted or partially adnate to spathe, 5-8 mm in diam., distally tapering; pistils congested, pale green, flask-shaped, ca. 1 × 0.5 mm, distally more widely spaced and subglobose; interpistillar staminodes few, white, clavate, taller than pistils; sterile zone absent; male zone ivory, narrowly obconic, ca. 1/2 length of female zone, distally 0.5-1 cm in diam.; anthers dumbbell-shaped, ca. 0.5 × 1 mm; appendix creamy yellow, bullet-shaped, basally somewhat wider than apex of male zone; appendix staminodes columnar, irregularly polygonal, ca. 0.5 mm in diam. Fruiting spathe declined, urceolate. Fl. Jun.
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A herb. It is a taro family plant without stems but a long, stout rhizome. It is 30-60 cm high. The leaves are oval with heart shaped bases. The leaf is 20 cm long by 13 cm wide. It has up to 20 pairs of side veins. The leaf stalk is 30 cm long. It has a sheath near the base. The large leaf like structure around the flower is 6-7 cm long. It is constricted at the middle. The flower stalk is almost equally divided between male and female flowers. After maturity the male part falls off.
A tropical plant. It is common in humid places in Papua New Guinea. It occurs in sago-palm mangrove locations. It suits shady places. It grows in dense tropical forests, under forest or on rocks between 740-880 m in China. It grows along streams. In Java it grows up to 1,500 m above sea level.
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