Pinellia fujianensis H.Li & G.H.Zhu

Perennial with an obovoid rhizome, to 3.5 cm long and 1.4 cm in diam., with more than 5 nodes, swollen, internodes very short, 2-3 mm long, present year’s part rooting; cataphylls 2-3, longacuminate, c. 1.5 cm long. Leaves 2-3; petiole 10-45 cm long, bearing bulbils at base; leaf blade widely sagittate, anterior lobe deltoid-ovate, 7-13.5 × 4.5-10 cm, long-acuminate at apex, basal lobes subtriangular, 4-7 × 2.5-3.5 cm, divaricate; primary lateral veins 6-7(-8) per side. Inflorescence with peduncle 8-20(-25) cm long; peduncle shorter than petioles, to 14(-15) cm long; spathe reddish to yellowish violet, c. 5.5 cm long, tube 1.5 × 0.1 cm, limb lanceolate, 3.5-4 × 1.4 cm, navicular, erect; spadix c. 11 cm long; female zone 1.3 cm long with 9-10 pistils; male zone free from spathe, 7 × 3 mm; sterile zone between female and male flowers 5-7 mm long; appendix slender, 8 cm long, outcurved. Female flowers adnate to the spathe, densely arranged; pistil c. 1.2 mm long, ovary ellipsoid, 0.7-0.8 mm in diam., style slender, c. 0.25 mm long and 0.15 mm in diam., stigma discoid, c. 0.3 mm in diam. Berries ovoid; seed 1, ovoid, c. 0.4 mm in diam.