Gonatanthus griffithii Schott, Prodr. Syst. Aroid. 143. 1860.

Stem creeping, 10-20 cm, 3-10 mm in diam. Petiole 25-30 cm; leaf blade strikingly white glaucous abaxially, pale green adaxially, ovate-oblong, 10-25 × 6-15 cm, base emarginate or shortly 2-lobed, apex acute or cuspidate. Peduncle ca. 12 cm. Spathe reflexed, yellow-green on both surfaces, brown-purple below middle inside, 7-10 × 2.8-3 cm. Spadix 2-3.5 cm; female zone 15-25 × 1-2 mm, ca. 2/3 of length adnate to spathe; ovary without staminodes; stigma entire; some sterile flowers on distal part of female zone; male zone cylindric, ellipsoid, 5-6 mm. Berry yellowish green, broadly obovoid-cylindric, apex with persistent stigma, 1-loculed. Seeds 4-12. Fl. Mar-Jun.

Open forests, brushwood in valleys, wet places; 100-500 m. SE Yunnan [NE India, Myanmar].