B. babeana

Monoecious; Lithophytic, evergreen, stemless, regularly monoecious herb with thick, creeping, plagiotropic rhizome. The new species is closely related to B. semiparietalis Yan Liu, S.M. Ku et C.-I Peng described from south-west Guangxi (Ku et al., 2006), but clearly distinct in its smaller plant size (particularly leaves), in brown, brownish-red to brownish grey indumentum (not white), in rugose, glossy, uniform dark green, irregularly bullate adaxial surface of leaf blade with prominent grooved veins and in glabrous sepals and ovary (not long setulose-pilose).

• Classification: Species
• Plant Type: Rhizomatous
• Botanical Section: Coelocentrum
• Origin: Asia, Vietnam
• Originator: Aver. & H.Q.Nguyen
• Date of Origin: 2012