Arisaema meleagris (Araceae)
Tuber subglobose or depressed globose, 1–2.5cm in diam. Cataphylls 2.4–12cm, membranous, apex obtuse. Leaf solitary, pedate; petiole green with brown spots, 10–23cm, proximally forming pseudostem; leaflets 7–9(–12), lanceolate, 3cm (outermost one) to 10 × 1–2.5cm, base acute, margin entire, usually erose, apex acuminate; central 3 subequal, remote, sessile; rachis between leaflets 5–10mm. Peduncle green with brown spots, shorter than petioles, 5–15cm. Spathe purplish brown with numerous dark brown spots, 6–9cm in total; tube cylindric, 3–4cm × 8–12mm, throat auriculate and outcurved; limb suberect, dark purple at apex, ovate to elliptic, ca. 3.5 × 2cm, apex acute or acuminate. Spadix unisexual; female zone ca. 7 × 4mm; ovary yellow-green, obovoid; stigma subsessile, sub-globose; male zone ca. 7 mm; synandria lax; anthers 2–4, sessile; thecae subglobose, dehiscing by lateral slits. Appendix erect, purple in basal and apical parts, whitish with purple spots at base, subcylindric, 2.5–3.5mm, base narrowed into stipe 5–10mm, apex obtuse.
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.
Broad-leaved forests, bamboo thickets.