Amydrium sinense (Araceae)
Stem slender, 3–5mm in diam.; internodes 3–5cm. Petiole elongated, 8–15cm, base sheathing; leaf blade light green, after drying black-brown, falcate-lanceolate, 13–23 × 5–8cm, strongly asymmetric, one side usually 2 × as wide as other, base broadly cuneate or subrounded, margin entire, apex acute; lateral veins many, diverging at 30° from midrib, contracted near margin into a marginal vein. Peduncle pale green, ca. 5.5cm. Spathe initially green, inrolled fusiform, ca. 7cm, middle part ca. 2.2 cm in diam., finally spreading, yellow-green to yellow, cymbiform, subovate, 8–9 × ca. 11.5cm. Stipe of spadix 5–10mm; spadix obovoid, ca. 4 × 1.8cm, angustate toward base, apex obtuse. Filaments ca. 4mm; anthers oblong, ca. 3mm. Ovary 5- or 6-angular, cylindric, ca. 4 × 5mm, apex truncate; stigma sessile, nearly circular, 1-loculed, 2-ovuled; ovules sub-basal, transversely inserted. Berry green, when mature yellow or red, and bad smelling. Seeds 1 or 2, brown, obovoid-reniform, ca. 2 mm.
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Leaf blade entire, unlobed; spadix obovoid, ca. 4 cm, distal part ca. 17 mm in diam.; stigma rounded.
This material was reprinted with permission from the Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, and Science Press, Beijing.
China: Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan; N Vietnam.
Evergreen forests, on trees or over rocks.
The stems and leaves are used for treating traumatic injuries, fractures, and angina pectoris.
This material was reprinted with permission from the Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, and Science Press, Beijing.