Sauromatum gaoligongense J.C.Wang & H.Li

Tuber depressed globose, ca. 2cm high, 2.5–3.5cm in diam., producing several annual offsets. Petiole uniformly green or dark purple, to 40cm, proximally often developing intercalary, irregular bulbils; leaf blade deeply 5–13-pedatifid; central lobe elliptic to obovate, to 12 × 5cm; lateral lobes progressively smaller. Inflorescence appearing before leaves; peduncle largely subterranean, yellowish green with a few scattered purple spots, 4–5cm × 3–6mm. Spathe closed at base, outside purplish brown, inside whitish, base triangular-ovate, to 3 × 2.8cm, tapering to constricted apex; limb strongly convolute at base, slightly arching, outside brownish purple with a few darker spots, inside pale purple, narrowly oblong, ca. 7 × 2.5cm, apex long acuminate. Spadix shorter than spathe, ca. 6cm; female zone cylindric, ca. 4 × 5–6mm; ovary obovoid, 1-loculed, 2-ovuled; sterile zone narrowly conic, ca. 3cm, carrying staminodes in proximal half, these distally progressively shorter and finally disappearing, distally grooved, verruculose; staminodes clavate, distally changing to aristate and upcurved; male zone oblong, ca. 1cm × 3mm; male flowers purple, with 1 stamen, pores apical; appendix stipitate, clavate, ca. 1.6cm, apex narrowly fusiform-conic, rugose.