Sauromatum diversifolium (Wall. ex Schott) Cusimano & Hett.

Underground part a subglobose tuber, 1–1.5cm high, 0.5–1.2cm in diam., producing annual offsets. Petiole 10–30cm; leaf blade simple and ovate-lanceolate, 2–22 × 1–25cm, cuneate to hastate, 3–5-lobed or pedately 5–9-sect, lobes elliptic to linear. Inflorescence appearing just before or alongside leaves; peduncle 3–14cm. Spathe base oblong-ovoid, 2–4 × 1–2cm; limb outside green, sometimes flushed with purple or purple all over, inside dark purple or greenish with dark purple veins and flushes, oblong-lanceolate, 4–13 × 2–5cm, apex acuminate to shortly caudate. Spadix shorter than spathe, 4–12cm; female zone cylindric, 0.5–1.5 cm × 4–7 mm; ovary: basal half white, apical half purple, ellipsoid; stigma sessile, white; sterile zone 1–3 cm, base swollen and with long staminodes, rest fusiform, with verrucate staminodal structures; proximal staminodes clavate, with only apical part distinctly and abruptly swollen, basal part filiform, whitish with purple flushes, clavate part yellow with a purple tip or purple; staminodal structures consisting of narrowly elliptic, shallow ridges with verrucate-corrugate surface, white, pale purple, or violet; male zone cylindric, 0.6–1.3cm × 1.5–7mm; appendix blackish purple, broadly to narrowly cylindric, 1–7cm × 2–8mm, obtuse or subacute.