You are here
Araceae
Schismatoglottis edanoi A.Hay
SUMMARY
Robust herb. Habit and shoot organisation unknown; vegetative cataphylls linear lanceolate, to 35 cm long. Petiole to c. 65 cm long, sheathing in the lower half; blade cordato-sagittate, c. 40 cm long (estimated — specimen fragmentary) × c. 26 cm wide; posterior lobes c. 12 cm long, rounded; midrib with c. 15 (est.) primary lateral veins on each side diverging at c. 60°; interprimary veins well developed; secondary venation finely striate; tertiary venation inconspicuous. Inflorescence arrangement unknown; peduncle c. 25 cm long, subtended by a reduced leaf with a blade c. 17 cm long. Lower spathe c. 5 cm long, narrowly ovoid; limb caducous, unknown. Spadix sessile, 9 cm long; female zone 2.5 cm long, c. 7 mm thick, partly adnate to spathe in lower half; pistils crowded; ovaries ovoid-cylindric, c. 1 mm diam.; interpistillar staminodes extremely sparse (only one found), stipitate, clavate, exceeding the pistils; style very short, c. 0.25 mm long; stigma button-like, slightly wider than style; male zone contiguous with female, 3.5 cm long, more than half within the lower spathe chamber, slightly constricted at and below the level of spathe constriction, above this c. 1 cm diam.; appendix cylindric, the same width as the upper part of the male zone, 2.8 cm long, c. 1 cm diam., the end blunt; appendical staminodes flat-topped, very numerous, c. 0.5 mm diam.