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Araceae
Schismatoglottis bogneri A.Hay
SUMMARY
Robust to moderately robust herb. Stem ?hypogeal, ?hapaxanthic. Petiole 15–60 cm long, sheathing in the lower ⅓–3⁄5; wings of sheath fully attached, persistent, tapering; blade lanceolate to cordato-sagittate, 16–32 cm long × 4.5–21 cm wide, the apex acuminate to obtuse and then apiculate, the base narrowly obtuse to truncate to cordate, with the posterior lobes, if present, to 8 cm long; midrib with c. 9–16 closely spaced abaxially prominent primary lateral veins on each side, irregularly alternating with lesser interprimaries and sometimes emitting subsidiary veins, diverging at c. 30–60°; secondary venation arising from the midrib and primary venation; tertiary venation inconspicuous. Inflorescences several together; peduncle 5–7 cm long, at anthesis more or less concealed within the cataphylls. Spathe 6–7 cm long, slender; lower spathe c. 2 cm long, narrowly cylindric; limb 4–5 cm long, lanceolate and somewhat inflated, caducous, acuminate-tipped. Spadix sessile, 3.5–5.5 cm long; female zone subcylindric-spindle-shaped, adnate to spathe in lower ⅓; pistils subglobose, crowded, c. 0.5 mm diam.; style c. 0.25 mm long; stigma punctate; interpistillar staminodes few, scattered among the pistils, squat, more or less equalling the height of the pistils, flat-topped, more or less as wide as the ovary; sterile interstice ill-defined, a few irregular whorls of close-packed sterile stamens (not interpistillar staminodes), narrowed for c. 2 mm, then broadening and becoming fertile; male zone cylindric, 1.8–2.2 cm long, c. 5 mm diam.; stamens crowded, dumbbell-shaped, with the connective extended, tongue-like, c. 1 mm long, erect or pressed into pore of adjacent theca; appendix short, 4-5 mm long, conic; appendical staminodes flattopped, irregularly polygonal, c. 0.6 mm across. Fruiting spathe narrowly urceolate, c. 4 cm long