Eminium spiculatum (Blume) Schott

Tuber depressed, 3-10 cm. LEAVES 3-6; petiole 15-40 cm; blade pedatipar-tite; terminal lobe oblong-lanceolate, acute; lateral lobes divided into 4-9 secondary lanceolate to linear lobes, spirally twisted and alternately directed up- and downwards. Scape shorter than petioles, hidden in the ground, about as thick as spathe-tube. INFLORESCENCE emitting a strong smell of dung and carrion, attracting beetles and flies. Spathe convolute at base into an oblong thickened and stiff tube, with margins free to its base, greenish or whitish on outside, with or without purple spots; spathe-limb fleshy, oblong-ovate, dark purple, wrinkled and densely warty on upper (inner) side. Appendage of spadix 6-7 cm, 5-7 mm thick, clavate, tuberculate-rugose, dark purple to greenish-yellow. Interspace between zones of pistillate and staminate flowers longer than both zones together; sterile flowers in interspace elongate-filiform, tapering and curved upwards. Pistillate flowers yellowish, tubercu-late; stigma sessile. Staminate flowers sessile, yellow to orange. INFRUCTESCENCE: Berries usually 1-seeded, white, with a leathery pericarp reticulate on surface. Seeds remaining in the ground, not dispersed.