Arisaema lihengianum (Araceae)
Plants to 50cm tall, monoecious or male. Rhizome creeping horizontally, purplish to brownish outside, red-purple inside, subcylindric, to 13 × ca. 4cm, branching. Cataphylls to 20cm, some encircling peduncle directly. Leaf 1, expanding simultaneously with inflorescence; petiole purplish brown, mottled with green, to 30cm, lacking pseudostem; leaf blade 3foliolate; petiolules 3.5–4.5cm; leaflets subequal in size, to 25 × 15cm; central leaflet oblong-elliptic, base rounded-cuneate, apex acuminate and caudate; lateral leaflets oblique. Peduncle 11–20cm. Spathe tube white or pale green, narrowly funnel-form, 4.5–6 × 7–9cm when opened; limb proximal half white, distal half dark red-purple, narrowly deltoid to narrowly deltoid-ovate, 15–20 × 5–6.5cm, apex acuminate. Spadix bisexual after sex change; female zone 20–30 × ca. 10mm; female flowers green, bottle-shaped; male zone 10–20 × ca. 8mm; male flowers basically white; appendix sessile, 13–16cm, slender, exserted from throat of spathe and pendulous, proximally white, distally dark red-purple, throughout with numerous filiform neuter flowers 3–5cm.
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.
This material was reprinted with permission from the Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, and Science Press, Beijing.
W Guangxi (Napo).
Limestone crevices under bushy evergreen forests.