Schizoglossum cordifolium E.Mey.

Stems 15-60 cm tall, very rarely branched. Leaves opposite and decussate; lamina 20-42 x 2-30 mm, triangular or oblong-or ovate-triangular, rarely elliptic or narrowly linear; petiole 1-4 mm long. Inflorescences 2-6 per stem, 1-8-flowered; peduncles 7-30 mm long; pedicels 5-10 mm long. Calyx segments 2.5-5 x 1-1.5 mm. Corolla lobes 5-7 x 3-4.5 mm, replicate, green lined with brown or yellow; dorsal surface glabrous, ventral surface glabrous except for a patch of pubescence at base, margin glabrous. Corona 2-2.5 mm long, ± equalling the gynostegium, white, beige or pale green; each lobe broadly obovate in dorsal view, bearing a ventral appendage consisting of two finger-like projections c. 1 mm long, parallel or divergent, horizontally inflexed over the gynostegium. Anthers with appendages 0.5-1 x 1-2 mm, reniform, appressed against the top of the gynostegial head; corpusculum 0.25-0.45 mm long, not flanged; pollinium attachment median; pollinium 0.52-0.8 mm long, reniform-ellipsoid, the germination zone occupying the top half of the pollinium, above the point of attachment. Fruit 5.8-7 cm long; seed 3.5 mm long; coma c. 22 mm long.

It is a subtropical plant.