Amorphophallus croatii Hett. & A.Galloway

Tuber depressed-globose, 6 cm in diam., 4 cm high, no offset development. Petiole 35-50 cm long, to 2 cm in diam., smooth, background a very fine pattern of tiny pale and dark green spots, with superimposed scattered larger, irregular, pale whitish green spots, the junction of petiole to the rachises of the lamina occasionally swelling to form an intercalary bulbil; lamina highly dissected, 60 cm wide, rachises winged distal from the basal branching points; leaflets elongate-elliptic, 4-16 cm long, 2-5.5 cm wide, acuminate, upper surface glossy green. Inflorescence solitary, after a very short leafless dormancy period; peduncle as petiole but considerably thinner, 35-40 cm long, ca. 5 mm in diam.; spathe ovate, 10-13 cm long, 7-8 cm wide, outside pale green, margins whitish green, inside pale green, base inside ridged-verrucate, apex broadly acute. Spadix slightly shorter than or equaling the spathe, sessile; female zone subcylindric, slightly wider at the apex, 1.4-1.5 cm long, 1-1.1 cm in diam., flowers congested; male zone subcylindric, slightly widening at the apex, 1.7-1.9 cm long, 1.2-1.3 cm in diam., flowers congested; appendix more or less cylindric-fusiform, 6.5- 6.7 cm long, 1.5- 2 cm in diam., obtuse, smooth, white. Ovary depressed, 3 mm in diam., 1.5 mm high, green, bilocular; style 1-1.2 mm long, 1 mm in diam., pale green; stigma depressed, 1.5 mm in diam., 0.5 mm high, entire with or without a very small central depression, verrucate, pale yellowish. Male flowers consisting of 3-4 stamens; stamens 1.5 mm long; filaments 0.5 mm long, fused entirely, w hite; anthers 1 mm long, 1-1.5 mm in cliam., white, pores apical, oval. Pollen psilate.