Arisaema flavum subsp. tibeticum (Araceae)
Plants monoecious and male. Tuber subglobose, 1.5–2.5cm in diam. Cataphylls 3–5, green, 8–25 cm. Leaves 1 or 2; petiole green to purplish, unmarked, 11–35cm, sheathing for ca. 4/5 length forming pseudostem; leaf blade pedate; leaflets 5–11(–15), sessile, glaucous abaxially, green adaxially, oblong-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, base cuneate, apex acuminate; central leaflet largest, 9–12 × 3–5 cm; outer (lateral leaflets) gradually decreasing to outermost (1.5–4 × 1–1.2cm). Peduncle emerging from pseudostem, green, 15–30cm. Spathe smallest in genus, 2.5–6 cm in total; tube yellowish green, ovoid to globose, 1–1.5 × 1–1.4 cm, constricted at dark purple throat with nectar inside; limb yellow or green, inside dark purple at least at basal part, oblong-ovate, 1.5–4.5 × 0.8–2cm, apex acuminate, slightly incurved. Spadix bisexual or male, very short, 1–2cm in total; female zone proximal, 3–7 × 5–7mm; ovaries congested, greenish, obovoid; stigma sessile; male zone distal, light yellow, cylindric, 3–7 × 2–3 mm; synandria congested, usually consisting of 2 anthers; thecae sessile, dehiscent by apical pore. Appendix yellowish or yellow green, ellipsoid, 2–5 × ca. 1.5mm, very short, rugose when dry. Mature infructescence nodding, subglobose, ca. 4cm in diam. Berries obovoid, 3–4 × 3–5mm. Seeds 3, pale yellowish, 2–2.5 mm.
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.
Rocky slopes, thickets, croplands, field sides.