Rhaphidophora
Rhaphidophora is a genus of evergreen, robust, climbing plants. T The flowers are bisexual, lacking a perigone. The spathe is shed after flowering.The flowers produce many, ellipsoid, straight seeds with a brittle and smooth outer coat (testa).Their bast fibers have typically abundant, long and slender trichosclereids, merging with the fibers of the sclerenchyma. If the blade of the leaf is torn, many hairs become apparent. Rhaphidophora consists of approximately 100 species. Rhaphidophora is a genus in the family Araceae, occurring from tropical Africa eastwards through Malesia and Australasia to the Western Pacific.