Pinellia fujianensis
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.
Pinellia cordata N. E. Br. similis sed rhizomate obovato, 3.5 cm longo, folio sagittato, folii basi sine bulbilo differt.
Endemic to Fujian, China. Growing in forests, on rocky sites in moist areas.
Flowering in April, fruiting in September.