Sphaeradenia chiriquensis is a species of plant in the family Cyclanthaceae that is native to Panama and Costa Rica.
This palm-like plant is remarkable for its inflorescence, a spadix, in which the male and female flowers alternate in a precise checkerboard pattern.
[1] It is a semiepiphytic herbaceous plant of the montane rainforests.
It was described by Harling in 1958.
[2]