Immense climber or sprawling lithophyte to c. 60 m tall; internodes of clinging axes to c. 30 cm long; adult plants with free, sympodial flowering lateral shoots with short internodes. Leaves: petiole to c. 80 cm long, sheathing for most of length; wings of sheath persistent; blade oblong-ovate, to c. 80 cm long, entire, shining dark green; venation not or hardly differentiated into primary or secondary veins, densely striate. Inflorescence cylindric, c. 30 cm long; spathe green to yellowish, opening narrowly canoe-shaped, caducous; spadix subsessile, narrowly cylindric, slightly shorter than spathe, green. Fruits transversely dehiscent in coherent plates revealing red pulp.
Grows inrainforest, riparian and gallery forest, evergreen notophyll vine forest,climbing on trees or sprawling on rocks, from sea level to c. 400 m alt.
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