Almost never offered for sale, very strikingly elegant plant with its 'rabbit's ears' leaves and slender, perfectly erect inflorescence held high above them, Cyrtosperma hambalii A.Dearden & A.Hay is a rhizomatous herb to ca. 1 m tall. Petioles are erect, short, about half the length of the blade, basally dark olive brown, apically mid green, olive green mottled olive brown in between. 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.
Cyrtosperma hambalii
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Cyrtosperma hambalii is ca. 25 cm tall and comes in 8 cm pot
