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Araceae
Anadendrum griseum P.C.Boyce
SUMMARY
Evergreen, medium-sized, slender to moderate lianescent secondary hemiepiphyte to 2 m. Stem (adult) root-climbing. Leaves distichous, scattered on climbing shoots but congested into loose fans at shoot tips where flowering occurs; petiole pulvinate apically, 6–10 cm; petiolar sheath extending to just below the pulvinus, margins and then whole sheath soon marcescent; leaf blade ovate-cordate to oblong, 14–20 × 9–10 cm, base truncate to weakly cordate or slightly cuneate, apex acute to acuminate, briefly apiculate, medium green when fresh, drying dull grey; primary lateral veins pinnate, 4–7 per side, running into marginal vein; interprimary veins almost obscured; all higher order venation reticulate. Inflorescence 1–6 in each floral sympodium; peduncle spreading with the spadix erect, much shorter than to exceeding the petiole of the preceding foliage leaf, 4–7 cm, each peduncle subtended by membranous, later papery cataphylls and the whole synflorescence subtended by several such cataphylls; spathe elongate-ovate, apically strongly rostrate in bud, basally contracted onto the stipe, gaping, then spreading, then reflexed at anthesis, then soon caducous, ca 3.5 × 2.5 cm, creamy green with scattered purple blotches; spadix stipitate; fertile portion 1.75–2 × 0.5 cm, greenish white at anthesis, green afterwards; stipe 0.5–0.8 cm, green; flowers ca 3 mm diam.; stamens: filaments short, broadly linear; anthers shorter than filaments; gynoecium obpyramidal, tetragonal, stylar region 2 × 3 mm, rhomboidal, truncate; stigma transverse–linear; fruit a subglobose truncate-topped berry, green when immature, bright glossy red with black stigmatic remains when ripe.