Araceae
Dracontioides Engl.
SUMMARY
Solitary or colony-forming evergreen herbs, with subterranean erect (orthotropic) rhizomes. LEAVES 2-6, petioles smooth, unarmed, marbled at base; blades ovoid to sagittate, held erect, entire to strongly perforate. INFLORESCENCES terminal, on a peduncle shorter than petiole that sometimes is mostly underground; spathe chartaceous to subcoriaceous, forming a basal tube with a fornicate lamina, deciduous soon after anthesis; spadix much shorter than spathe, stipe very short to absent. Flowers hermaphroditic throughout the length of the spadix, tepalate, maturing in basipetal sequence, perianth and androecium tetramerous; stamens with linear filaments and extrorse bilocular anthers, dehiscence by a slit-like pore; pollen monosulcate, ellipsoid-oblong, exine subreticulate; gynoecium longer than tepals, ovate--conoid, ovary 1-2locular, locules 1-3 ovuled, placentation basal, style conoid, stigma small and not visibly nectariferous. INFRUCTESCENCE usually pendant, spathe marcescent; berries broadly obovoid, somewhat furrowed, 1-5 seeded, green to dark purple; seed campylotropous, albuminous, testa thick, verrucose to channeled. 2n = 26 (only counted for D. desciscens)