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Lianas. Leaves petiolate; leaf blade oblong or obliquely oblong, 15-24 × 5-9 cm, leathery, base obtuse, margin entire, apex acuminate; lateral veins 8 or 9 pairs, ascending, nearly parallel. Peduncles 6-9 cm. Spathe convolute, ca. 8 × 2 cm. Spadix sessile, shorter than spathe, ca. 6 cm, ca. 1 cm in diam. Anthers ovoid, acuminate. Ovary hexagonal-cylindric, ca. 5 mm.

S Taiwan (Lan Yu) [Japan (Ryukyu Islands)].

The records of Rhaphidophora perkinsiae Engler from Lan Yu (T. S. Liu & T. C. Huang, Quart. J. Taiwan Mus. 16: 141. 1963; Fl. Taiwan 5: 813. 1978) are based on misidentifications of R. liukiuensis (see Fl. Taiwan, ed. 2, 5: 686. 2000). True R. perkinsiae is distributed in the Philippines.