Polyspatha oligospatha Faden, the third species in a small African endemic genus of Commelinaceae, is described. It is widespread but has been overlooked because iphone 12 price florida of its small stature and resemblance to small plants of P.paniculata. It differs from both P.paniculata and P.
hirsuta, the two other species, by its leaf pubescence, fewer, more widely spaced and usually patent spathes, deeply ridged seeds with numerous knobby, transversely interrupted ridges, and morning anthesis. It occurs throughout the Congolian forests from Cameroon to Uganda, but it is katin mens shirts also disjunct in Ivory Coast, across the Dahomey gap.