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Araceae
Amorphophallus hemicryptus Hett. & Maxw.
Nomenclature
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Family: AraceaeGenus: Amorphophallus
SUMMARY
Small, seasonally dormant, deciduous, perennial herb, tuberous. Tuber vertically elongate, 1 cm in diam., ca. 4 cm long, pale brown outside, whitish and pale yellow inside. Leaf unknown but seasonally deciduous. Inflorescence developing separate from leafy phase, solitary or two to three developing in sequence, all held at ground level; peduncle ca. 1 cm long, 2 - 3 mm in diam., subterranean; spathe ovate, 2 - 3.5 cm long, 1.5 - 3 cm across, base loosely convolute, inside smooth, dark purple, base and limb not separated by a constriction, limb oblique, acute, margin slightly rolled inwards, dirty whitish outside with minute darker speckles, inside limb as outside, scape, including bracts in soil,dullwhitish.Spadixsessile,ca.6 - 12 cm long; female zone 3 mm in diam., consisting of ca. 4 - 8 pistils in one row, crowded on a narrow zone on the lowermost part of the spadix, their long axes subparallel to the spadix axis; sterile, naked zone between female and male part 3 mm long, 1 mm in diam.; male zone cylindric, 0.7 - 1.5 cm long, 0.3 - 0.4 cm in diam., flowers distant; appendix myosuroid, 5 - 10 cm long, 2 - 3 mm in diam., acute, smooth, whitish with numerous pale pinkish-greyish speckles. Pistil broadly lageniform; ovary 1 mm long, 2 - 2.5 mm in diam., 2-3-locular, strongly constricted between the locules; style slightly conical, 0.7 mm long, 0.8 mm in diam. at the base; stigma very thin, ca. 8 mm across, shallowly bilabiate, surface verruculate. Male flowers 1-3-androus; filaments absent or 0.5 mm long, fused; anther globose, 0.9 - 1 mm in diam., creamy with purplish speckles, pores apical.