Rohdea medogensis

Description: — Chamaephytic herb. Rhizome cylindrical, usually erect, to 2.5 cm in diameter, 5 – 6 cm long. Roots fibrous, to 6 mm in diameter. Stem (aerial part) short, up to 5 cm long. Leaves equitant, narrowly oblanceolate, narrowly elliptic or lorate, acute to acuminate at apex, tapering gradually to petiole-like base, subcoriaceous, 20 – 55 cm long, 3 – 8 cm wide. Peduncle ca. 3 cm long. Spike cylindrical or ellipsoid, with ca. 6 flowers, ca. 5 cm long, with several sterile bracts apically. Bracts 3 per flower, often minutely denticulate at margin, herbaceous or membranous; outer bract 1, borne slightly below flower, exceeding flower, lanceolate or narrowly deltoid, acute, 3 – 5 cm long, 2 – 3 mm broad; inner bract (bracteole) 2, subulate, to 7 mm long, 1.5 – 2 mm broad, with several sterile bracts apically. Perianth globular, green, turning yellow or orange with age, 8 – 10 mm across; lobes deltoid-ovate, lacerated, often abaxially with verruculose long margins, 2 – 3 mm long, 3 – 4 mm wide; tube cupulate, 2.5 – 4 mm long, at orifice of tube developing annulus (or annular ledge) appendages, 1 – 1.5 mm broad. The annulus appendages and tube formed a capsule chamber that encloses the pistil, and there is only a small hole in the center, diam. 1 mm, lacerated. The stamens are above the annulus appendages. Anther oblong or ovate, 0.8 – 1.5 mm long, connectives sometimes corniculate dorsally, cornicle up to 1.5 mm long; filaments incurved, 1 – 2 mm long, inserted in upper part of perianth tube, decurrent parts lamellate, dilated below, united with adjacent ones in lower part of tube. Pistil ca. 5 mm long; stigma bend and not lobbed; style columnar, conspicuous, 3.5 – 5.5 mm long; ovary globose or subglobose, askew, 2.5 – 3.0 mm in diam. Berry ellipsoid, askew, ca. 2.5 cm long, scarlet at maturity. Seed ellipsoid, askew, ca. 1.0 cm in diam.