Amorphophallus xiei H.Li & Z.L.Dao

Tuber dark brown outside, pink inside, depressed globose, 7–8cm high, ca. 16cm in diam., root scars not swollen, without offset development. Leaf solitary; petiole pink at base, green to deep green apically, sometimes with some inconspicuous, paler, rhombic, linear, or irregular spots with a dark center or with scattered very small, dark green dots, 60–80cm, glabrous; leaf blade 60–120cm in diam.; leaflets pale abaxially, green adaxially, elliptic, to ca. 23 × 8cm, apex acuminate; main branching points in leaf blade with an epiphyllar bulbil, these brown, depressed globose to subglobose, to 3 cm in diam. Inflorescence solitary; peduncle colored as petiole, to 18 × 1.3–1.5cm. Spathe almost erect, outside very pale whitish pinkish with scattered punctiform dark brown dots, with purple base, and margin sometimes reddish, inside dark pink, campanulate, ca. 18 × 10cm, base minutely verruculose. Spadix sessile, longer than spathe, 23–24cm; flowers unisexual, naked; female zone cylindric, 4–4.5 × 1.5–2cm, flowers congested; ovary pink to reddish pink, obconic, ca. 3mm high, ca. 2mm in diam., 1loculed; style almost absent; stigma nearly sessile, yellow, strongly depressed, disciform, ca. 0.5mm high, ca. 3mm in diam., wider than ovary, slightly 5- or 6-lobed to irregularly 8lobed; male zone cylindric or slightly obconic, 6.5–7 × 2.6–3.7cm; male flower consisting of 4 or 5 stamens; stamens almost entirely free, ca. 2 × 1.5mm; filaments ca. 1mm; anthers offwhite with a pinkish apex, truncate, ca. 1 mm; pores apical, slightly elongate; appendix off-white or pale pink, fusiformconic, laterally compressed in larger individuals, ca. 11 × 5cm, smooth. Fruit red when mature, ovoid, ca. 1.5cm × 5mm.