Araceae
Alocasia clypeolata A.Hay
SUMMARY
Small herb to ca. 30 cm tall; stem short, ca. 5 cm long x 2 cm diam. (dry); leaves ca. 6 together; petiole ca. 17 cm long, sheathing in the lower quarter; blade weakly coriaceous, darker near the main veins, ovate to very broadly ovate, 16 x 6.5 cm to 12 x 8 cm; anterior lobe 7-11 cm long, widest ca. Quarter of the way from the base, the tip acute to obtuse and then apiculate; anterior costa with 3 primary lateral veins on each side diverging at 45-60°; secondary veneration forming irregular interprimary collective veins in the proximal part of the blade, these not formed in the distal portions; all venation flush with the lamina on both sides (dry); posterior lobes ca. 4 cm long, peltate for more than 80 % of their length, with the posterior costae subparallel; inflorescences parierd amongst the leaves subtended by oblong lanceolate cataphylls to ca. 5 cm long; peduncle much shorter than the petioles, ca. 5 cm long; spathe white, ca. 6 cm long; lower spathe ca. 1.8 cm long, ovoid; spathe limb broadly lanceolate ca. 4.2 cm long x 1.8 cm wide at the base, at make anthesis with the lower ca. 1 cm sharply reflexed and the rest erect; spadix more or less equalling the spathe, stipitate for ca. 2 mm; female zone subcylindric, ca. 1 cm long x ca. 6 mm diam.; ovaries globuse, ca. 1.2 mm diam.; style shorter than ovary, ca. 0.5 mm long; stigma rounded and weakly lobed; sterile interstice ca. 6 mm long x 3 mm diam., composed of rhomboid synandrodia ca. 1.3 mm diam.; male zone 1 cm long x 4 mm diam., subcylindric, narrowed at the base and apex, the base corresponding with the spathe costriction; synandria rhombo-hexagonal, ca. 1 mm diam., of 3-4 connate stamens; thecae opening by apical pores not overtopped by the synconnective; appendix ca. 3 cm long, tapering to a point, covered in low, elongate sinuous irregular sterile organs; infructescence with short peduncle; fruting spathe subglobose, ca. 2.5 x 1.5 cm.