Remusatia hookeriana (Araceae)
Herbs, cormous. Tuber dark outside, white inside, depressed globose, 0.5–3 × 0.5–3cm; new roots and buds appearing at apex in Apr–May; stolons much branched, spreading, pendulous, sometimes simple and creeping; bulbils numerous, smaller. Cataphylls white, lanceolate, ca. 9cm, membranous, convolute around both leaf and flower buds. Leaves 2, appearing in Jun (after anthesis), spreading one after another; petiole tinged reddish, with darker markings, up to 45cm × ca. 8mm; leaf blade becoming purple abaxially, green adaxially, ovate-lanceolate, first leaf up to 30 × 13cm, membranous, peltate and cordate at base, long acuminate at apex; second leaf appearing from sheath in proximal part of petiole of first leaf, petiole 10–20cm, leaf blade smaller, ca. 14 × 4.5cm. Flowering before leaves develop. Peduncle greenish, 4–13 cm × 1.5–3.5mm. Spathe 3–7cm; tube convolute, green outside, dark purple inside, ovoid, 1.3–2.7cm × 5–10mm; limb deciduous, semispreading to erect, entirely yellow-green, ovate, 2–4.5 × ca. 3.3cm, apex acute. Spadix sessile, yellow-green, shorter than spathe; female zone yellow-green, ca. 11 × 4mm; female flowers partly 4-loculed; ovary ovoid, ca. 1.1mm in diam.; stigma sessile, disciform; placentae parietal; ovules many, orthotropous; sterile zone attenuate, yellow, ca. 7 × 2mm; sterile male flowers rhombic or elliptic, apex truncate; male zone capitate, ellipsoidal, to 9 × 5 mm, apex obtuse; male flowers clavate or cuneate, apex truncate, with fleshy connective, with 4–6 oblong thecae opening by a terminal pore. 2n = 28, 42.
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, on mossy rocks or tree stumps.