Typhonium hunanense (Araceae)
Rhizome cylindric, 3–6cm × 4–10mm, usually curved and branched. Petiole 11–26cm; leaf blade green, sometimes purple, oblong-sagittate to ovate, distal part ovate, 6–14 × 5–6cm, base cordate or truncate, apex abruptly acuminate or acute; basal lobes, if present, spreading, ovate, deltoid, or oblong. Peduncle 6–9cm, slender. Spathe convolute at base, yellowish, with purple spots, 6–10cm, basal 2–3cm ovoid, constricted at apex; limb spreading or slightly recurved, purple, lanceolate, 4–6cm, apex long acuminate. Spadix shorter than spathe, 5–7cm; female zone ca. 3mm; ovary subglobose, 1-loculed, 1-ovuled; stigma subsessile, violet; sterile zone 1.5–2cm, proximal 5–7mm with densely congested staminodes, rest naked; staminodes variously curled, filiform, 3–4mm; male zone cylindric, 6–8 × 1.5–2mm; appendix sessile, erect, narrowly conic, 2–3.9cm × 3–4mm, base truncate.
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.
Bamboo forests, thickets.