Araceae
Alocasia atropurpurea Engl.
SUMMARY
Moderately robust herb; petiole to ca. 50 cm long, sheathing in the lover third; blade membranous, ovato-sagittate, ca. 40 cm long , very shallowly peltate; anterior lobe ca. 30 cm long x 30 cm wide at base, with about 4 primary lateral veins on each side of the anterior costa diverging at ca. 45-70°, secondary veins flush on both sides of the blade, arising from the primary veins at ca. 70° and then deflected to the amrgin, not or hardly forming interprimary collective veins; posterior costae diverging at an obtuse angle; posterior lobes ca. Half the length of the anterior, rounded, with little laminar tissue on the posterior side of the posterior costae, but this confluentacross the sinus; glands in the axils of the primary veins inconspicuous or absent; inflorescence arrangement (not known); spathe to ca. 14 cm long; lower spathe ca. 4 cm long, ovoid, asymmetric (due to partial connation with spadix); limb broadly oblong-lanceolate, cucullate, the basal ca. 1 cm deflected and somewhat inflated, then the rest erect, dark purple brown; spadix somewhat shorter than the spathe; female zone ca. 3 cm long, partly connate with spathe in lower third, tapering distally; ovaries globuse, rather large, ca. 2.5-3 mm diam. (dry); stigma strongly 3-4-lobed on a very short style; sterlie interstice slender, ca. 1 cm long, corresponding with spathe constriction male zone ca. 3 cm long x 1.3 cm thick (dry); synandria rhombo-hexagonal, ca. 2 mm diam., more or less capped by expanding synconnectivel appendix slightly longer than to about twice the length of the male zone, slightly constricted at junction with male zone, thence cylindric and distally abruptly tapering; infructescence unknown.