[3] George King, the British botanist who first formally described the species, named it in honor of Benedetto Scortechini, an Italian priest and member of the Linnean Society of London and New South Wales who collected many important botanical samples in Peninsular Malaysia.

[5] Its membranous, oblong to lance-shaped leaves are 22–50 by 5.5–19.5 centimeters with short tapering tips and pointed bases.

Its leaves have 18–32 pairs of secondary veins emanating from their midribs that arch near the leaf margins.

Its 3 membranous, rigid, round to oval sepals are 0.8–2.4 by 0.8–2.3 centimeters with shallowly pointed tips and fused at bases.

Its solitary (rarely in pairs) flowers are in axillary positions and on pedicels that are 1.27 centimeters long.