Araceae
Aglaonema nitidum (Jack) Kunth
SUMMARY
Medium to large, somewhat robust, pachycaul or decumbent, evergreen herb, to 2 m tall. Stem erect or with lower part reclining on ground in larger plants, 0.5–5 cm thick. Leaves several to rather many together, usually restricted to the terminal portion of stems in larger plants; petioles deeply channelled, (8–)11–26(–29) cm long; petiolar sheath extending to the petiole tip, margins scarious; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, 11–50 × 4–20 cm, base cuneate to attenuate, rarely broadly acute, apex acuminate to broadly acute or shortly acuminate, apiculate, coriaceous, usually plain green, sometimes with grey variegation either in bars following the venation or in rather irregularly scattered blotches; venation barely or not differentiated in fresh and dry material but sometimes primary veins weakly differentiated into 5–9 or more. Inflorescences 2–5 together; peduncle 5–21 cm long, equalling or surpassing the subtending petiole; spathe oblong, 3–8.5 cm, decurrent for 4–20 mm, white at anthesis, becoming green during fruiting, persistent until fruit full-sized but still green, then marcescent; spadix cylindrical, equalling or slightly exceeding spathe, 1.3–7 cm, stipitate; stipe 0.2–0.9 cm long; pistillate flower zone (0.2–)0.5–1.0 cm long with 16–37 flowers; staminate flower zone 1.1–6.0 × ca.1.5 cm, white; fruits ellipsoid, green, changing to white then pink and finally red.