Arisaema decipiens (Araceae)
Rhizome cylindric, to 9 × 2.5cm. Cataphylls 3 or 4, yellowish purple with dark brown or whitish spots, 2–15cm. Leaves 2; petiole greenish or reddish with dark green or dark purple spots, 15–90cm; leaf blade pedate, palmate; leaflets (3–)5–7, petiolulate, greenish and sometimes with purple spots abaxially, dark green adaxially, narrowly oblong to elliptic, base cuneate, apex acuminate; central leaflet with petiolule developed to 5 cm, blade 8–18 × 3–8cm; outermost leaflets 5–6 × 1.5–2cm. Spathe green, usually with dark purple dots; tube cylindric, white toward base, 4–6 × 1.5–2cm, throat obliquely truncate, slightly outcurved; limb deep green, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 4–9.5 × 3–3.5cm, apex acuminate and caudate, tail 6–10cm, curved forward. Spadix unisexual; female zone conic, 1.5–2cm, 7–13mm in diam. at base; ovary green, bottle-shaped; stigma sessile, purple; male zone 2–2.5cm; synandria lax; anthers 2 or 3; thecae dehiscing by lateral slits. Appendix erect, green, usually with dark purple dots, terete, 5–7 × ca. 0.7cm, rugose or echinate, base stipitate, apex rounded. Berries red. Seeds 1–3, obovoid, ca. 5mm.
This material was reprinted with permission from the Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, and Science Press, Beijing.
This material was reprinted with permission from the Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, and Science Press, Beijing.
Evergreen forests, mossy forests, thickets, bamboo thickets, on and between rocks.