Description
Dioecious plants, rich orange to red or dark red.
Leaves 3-8, spirally arranged, length 2-3½ cm, width 1½-2¼ cm.
Flowers 7-9 or more.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Borneo present (Sarawak present); Malaya present, Mt Kinabalu present, Pahang present, W. Borneo present
Malesia: Borneo (Sarawak, W. BorneoMt Kinabalu) and Malaya (Pahang, one collection). .
Notes
Distinguished from all other species by the long, reflexed pedicels and the extremely compressed, almost sharp-edged, fan-shaped synandria. Flowering specimens sometimes smelling strongly of fox (CORNER on label).
Citation
BECC. 1869: p. 65. – In: Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital.: t. 2-4
EICHL. 1873 – In: DC., Prod. 17: 148
VAL. 1913 – In: Nova Guinea: 920
BECC. 1904: Wanderings: 128, 164
HANSEN 1972: p. 130. – In: Dansk Bot. Ark.: f. 33, 34
HEINE 1951 – In: Fedde, Rep. 54: 226
