Remusatia vivipara (Roxb.) Schott

Tuber globose, flattened, 2-3 cm in diameter and 1.5-2 cm thick. Cataphylls 8-15 cm long; stem erect, brown-reddish 15-25 x 5mm, bearing bulbils on the upper half; LEAVES: 1 (-3) leaves; petiole cylindric, 20-50 cm long. Bulbils 6-9 x 3-4 mm. Leaf blade peltate, ovate (insertion of petiole in the lower 1/3) cordate at the base, cuspidate at the apex, 20-40 x 13-25 cm, dark green on the top; primary veins and the midrib very pale, sometimes slightly green-brownish at the start of the veins; 4-7 primary lateral veins each side, forming an angle of 45º with the midrib; posterior lobes up to half the length of the anterior lobes, joined for ca. 3/4 of their length; Sinus rounded at the base. INFLORESCENCE: Peduncle 10-15 cm long. Spathe 9.5-13.5 cm long; exterior of tube green, much paler inside, 3.5-4.5 x 1 cm diameter; blade yellow, 6-9 cm long, upper 1/3 the same width, with a point 3-5 mm long; spathe limb reflects during anthesis. Female zone of spadix ca. 2 cm long; fertile male zone elliptic, 1.5 cm long, a little shorter, but thicker than, the sterile zone; spadix without appendix. Synandrodium clavate, with 2-3 stamens; thecae elongate, dehiscing via an apical pore. Synandrodium flattened. Ovary obovoid, 1 or 2-4 incomplete locules; ovules numerous, hemiorthotropous; placentation parietal; stigma sessile, discoid. INFRUCTESCENCE: Berries obovoid, globose, enclosed by the spathe; seeds numerous, elliptic. Chromosomes 2n=56