A very beautiful, unusually coloured, Cyrtosperma sp. Papua has wonderful, fresh green leaf blades with pink spot-variegation. It is a rhizomatous herb to ca. 1 m tall. Petioles are erect, short, about half the length of the blade, Leaf blades are sagittate, held with the posterior lobes erect and the anterior lobe pointing obliquely down. Anterior lobe is much shorter than the posterior, narrowly triangular.

The genus name, Cyrtosperma comes form greek 'Curved seed'; probably referring to the shape of the seed.