Araceae
Remusatia pumila (D.Don) H.Li & A.Hay
SUMMARY
Tuber yellowish brown outside, globose, 1–2.5cm in diam.; bulbiferous stolons spreading, creeping, slender, branched; bulbils many, covered by brown scales; bristles filiform, hooked. Leaves 3 or 4; petiole green, cylindric, 15–40cm, proximal 1/4–1/3 sheathing; leaf blade dull green on both surfaces, areas between primary veins sometimes purple abaxially and/or adaxially, ovate to oblong-ovate, 8–23.5 × 7–14.5cm, papery, base peltate and shallowly cordate, apex acute or slightly acuminate, sinus 5–45mm; primary veins 4 or 5 on each side, radiating from petiole and pinnately from midrib of main lobe, secondary venation pinnate from primary veins, fine intramarginal vein present. Inflorescence solitary, flowering when leaves develop; peduncle green, 6–10cm. Spathe tube green, narrowly ovoid, 12–15 × ca. 10mm; limb semispreading to erect, yellow or yellow-green on both surfaces, elongate, 13–21cm, membranous; proximal part of limb separated into 2 parts by a constriction; proximal part subglobose, 1.5–2.5cm, opening to reveal male zone of spadix; distal part narrowly lanceolate, 11.5–21cm × 6–15mm, apex long acuminate, fully opening only for a short time (less than 3 or 4 hours). Spadix sessile; female zone 5.5–7.5 × 3.5–4.5mm; ovary green; ovules many, oblong, basal; stigma sessile; sterile zone yellow, 4–5mm, slender; sterile flowers rhombic or oblong, flat; male zone violet, clavate, ca. 10 × 4mm; synandria 0.6–1mm in diam.; filaments ca. 0.7mm. 2n = 28.