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Araceae
Amorphophallus reflexus Hett. & A.Galloway
SUMMARY
Tuber elongate, thin, 10-24 cm long, 1-2 cm in diam., rarely branching. Petiole to 40 cm long, 5-7.5 mm in diam., smooth, uniformly rich burgundy red; leaflets elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 2-5 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, apex acute, upper surface mid green Inflorescence solitary; peduncle as petiole, 19 cm long, 0.5 cm in diam.; spathe broadly ovate, 4 cm long, 5 cm in diam., at first erect, then the upper part moving a little away from the spadix at female anthesis and at male anthesis the lower half reflexing to a position at a right angle with the spadix-axis, pulling the upper part of the spathe further away from the spadix, outside white with a green flush, inside white, base inside densely verruculate; spadix much longer than spathe, 11.5-13 cm long; female zone cylindric, 0.5-0.6 cm long, 0.6 cm in diam., flowers distant; male zone fusiform, l.5 cm long, 0.9- 1 cm in diam., flowers distant; appendix narrowly elongate fusiform, 9-11 cm long, 0.7-0.8 cm in diam. at the middle, base tapering, apex acute, surface smooth, off-white, creamish or pale green. Ovary depressed, oval in cross-section, sunken into the spadix-axis, 1.5-2 mm in diam., 0.8 cm high, slightly bilobed by two opposite, shallow peripheral constrictions, pale green, 2(-3?)-locular; style short, thick, 0.5 mm long, 1 mm in diam.; stigma very thin, 1 mm in diam., 0.1-0.2 mm thick, shallowly bilobed, verruculate, dirty creamish. Male flowers fully synstaminate, consisting of 3-5 fully fused stamens; filaments fused into a column, 1-2 mm long, 2 mm in diam. off-white; anthers fully fused into a disc, 2.5- 3 mm in diam., 1 mm high, with a shallow, elongate, central depression, pores lateral, slit-like; pollen few, released immediately after the reflexing of the spathe base and being dropped on its horizontal inner surface. Fruiting part elongate, berries crowded; berries ovate to lageniform, smooth, ca. 1 cm long, ca. 1 cm in diam., green when immature, then turning glossy white, 1- to 3-seeded. Seeds subglobose to globose, ca. 5 mm in diam., greenish to blackish.