Araceae
Hapaline celatrix P.C.Boyce
SUMMARY
Diminutive, tuberous, evergreen perennial herb up to 5 cm high. Stem: tuber globose, 7 - 17 x 7 - 13 mm; stolon terete, 1 - 4 cm x 2 - 4 mm, enclosed by several papery cataphylls. Roots c. 0.2 mm in diam. LEAF: prophyll linear-triangular, up to 9 cm x 5 mm, acute to apiculate; cataphyll linear-triangular, up to 12 cm x 9 mm, attenuate to rather blunt; petiole 8 - 9 cm x 0.5 - 1.5 mm; leaf blade cordiform, 5.5 - 16 x 2.7 - 10.5 cm, thickly coriaceous to almost succulent, dark green, sometimes spotted and blotched silver to pale green, margins smooth, apex acuminate, posterior lobes rounded, divergent to sub-parallel. INFLORESCENCE: solitary to several together; peduncle 3 - 6 cm x 0.5 - 2 mm; spathe 1.5 - 2 cm long; spathe limb elliptic, 1.5 - 2 cm x 6 - 10 mm, apex acute, base decurrent into lower spathe; lower spathe margins clasping, 1.5 - 3 cm x 2 mm; spadix 1 cm x 2.5 - 3 mm, free portion narrowly conic, c. 8 mm long, tapering apically in to a stout conical appendix composed of fused synandrodes. Flowers: synandria irregularly elongate in plan view, 2 - 7 x 0.75-1.5 mm; ovaries ellipsoid, 2 - 2.5 x 0.5 - 1 mm, 2 - 4 in a single row; stigma slightly prominent, c. 0.2 mm diam; style absent. INFRUCTESCENCE: partially enclosed by the persistent lower spathe, few-berried; berries ellipsoid to almost globose c. 3 mm in diam., stigmatic remains persistent, slightly prominent.