Steudnera henryana (Araceae)
Herbs, evergreen, medium sized, to 45cm. Stems short, densely covered with fibrous cataphyll remains. Leaves few together at shoot tips; petiole mid-green, terete, 30–45cm × 4–5mm, sheath very short; leaf blade slightly paler abaxially, mid-green adaxially, peltate, somewhat stiffly membranous, base sometimes somewhat truncate, apex acuminate. Inflorescence solitary, rarely paired; peduncle pale green, terete, 8–15cm. Spathe golden yellow, inside with a red patch, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 5–8 × ca. 4cm, apex cuspidate-acuminate. Spadix up to 2.3cm; female zone cylindric, ca. 15 × 3mm, dorsally adnate to spathe; pistil mid-green, depressed globose, ca. 2mm in diam.; style very short; stigma pale yellow, 2lobed, exceeding style; staminodes 4 or 5 per pistil, white, shorter than pistil, stoutly spatulate and very shortly apiculate; male zone ivory, bluntly cylindric, free; synandria 6- or 7-androus, ca. 2 × 3.5mm. Infructescence and fruit unknown.
This material was reprinted with permission from the Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, and Science Press, Beijing.
This material was reprinted with permission from the Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, and Science Press, Beijing.
Wet shaded areas in seasonal evergreen forests, habitually on limestone.