Rhaphidophora korthalsii Schott, when mature, is a very large, occasionally enormous, liane to 20 m. In a seedling stage it is a non-skototropic shingling juvenile shoot. Petioles are shallowly grooved, subteret. Leaf lamina of seedlings are overlapping in the manner of roof shingles, lanceolate. Lamina of pre-adult and adult plants free, entire, pinnatipartite, pinnatisect or pinnatifid, broadly oblong-elliptic to oblong lanceolate, slightly oblique, membranous to chartaceous or sub-coriaceous.
Genus name comes form greek rhaphis, rhaphidos (needle) and pher6 (I bear); refers to the macroscopic (to 1 cm long), needle-like unicellular trichosclereids present in tissues.
Rhaphidophora korthalsii
Rhaphidophora korthalsii comes in a 14cm pot and is ca. 30 cm tall
