A new rheophytic species of Schismatoglottis, S. persistens S. Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce is described from Sri Aman Division, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. It is remarkable in the genus by the combination of a creeping, rooting, rhizome-like stem and persistent ligules at the tip of the petiolar sheath.
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