Pinellia cordata
Tuber depressed globose, 1-1.5 cm in diam. Leaves 1-3; petiole 12-25 cm long, green or purple; leaf blade cordate-oblong, cordate-ovate or cordate to sagittate, 4-25 × 2-7.5 cm, green above, greenish or purple below, long-acuminate at apex, base deeply cordate, primary lateral veins 9-10 per side; bulbils present at basal portion of petiole and at base of leaf blade (apex of petiole), ovoid. Inflorescence with peduncle shorter than petioles, 3.7-18 cm long; spathe green, purplish yellow or violet, 4-7 cm long, tube 1-1.3 cm long and wide, limb elliptic, 3-4.5 × 1.2-3 cm, apex obtuse or acute, erect or slightly incurved; spadix 9-23 cm long; female zone (0.8-)1-1.2 cm long; male zone 5-7 mm long; sterile zone between female and male flowers 7-8 mm long; appendix violet-green, 6.5-20 cm long, tortuous. Female flowers densely arranged; pistil c. 2.5 mm long, ovary ellipsoid-oblong, c. 2 mm long and 1 mm in diam., style short, c. 0.3 mm long and 0.5 mm in diam., stigma discoid, 0.6-0.7 mm in diam. Male flowers with thecae elongate, c. 1.8 mm long, opening by a slit. Berries ovoid. – Fig. 3.
Chromosome number. – 2n = 72 (Li & al. 1997b).A synopsis and a new spe
Endemic to China: Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces. Growing in forests, along streams, moist meadows, cliffs, rock debris, below 800 m altitude.
Flowering from March to June, fruiting from May to September.
Its tuber is poisonous and used for the treatment of detoxification of viper bites, lumbago and in case of allergic reactions, furthermore externally to treat traumatic injury, abscesses, neck lymphosarcoma, breast mastitis and draining of pus.A synopsis and a new species of the E As