Meineckia longipes (Wight) G.L.Webster in Acta Bot. Neerl. 14: 352, ff. 6, 15, 23. 1965. Peltandra longipes Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 5(2): 25, t. 1891. 1852. Phyllanthus longipes (Wight) Müll.Arg. in Linnaea 32: 11. 1863; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 287. 1887. Neopeltandra longipes (Wight) Gamble, Fl. Madras 2(7): 1286. 1925 (repr. ed. 2: 900. 1957).

Shrubs or undershrubs, ca 1 m high; entirely glabrous. Leaves narrowly ovate, ovate, oblong, narrowly oblong-elliptic, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, unequal or sometimes equal and acute to subacute at base, entire to undulate along margins, caudate, acuminate or apiculate at apex, 3.5 - 12 x 1.3 - 4 cm, membranous to chartaceous; lateral nerves 5 - 10 pairs; petioles 7 - 20 mm long. Male flowers: not seen. Female flowers: solitary per axil or with 1 - 2 immature flowers; pedicels 3.5 - 7 cm long, filiform; sepals 5, broad, ovate to suborbicular, 1.5 - 2 mm long; disc annular, thick; ovary subglobose, ca 1.5 mm in diam.; styles 3, ca 0.5 mm long, free, bifid above. Fruits subglobose, ca 7 x 10 mm, 3-lobed, invaginated at apex, brown when dry.

Fl. & Fr. Sept. - Oct.

Distrib. India: Evergreen subtropical montane forests, at 1200 - 1800 m altitudes. Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

Endemic.

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