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Araceae
Typhonium khandwaense Mujaffar, Yasin & Mustakim
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SUMMARY
Tubers subcylindric, 2-6 cm long. and 1-3 cm in diam, developing several small oblong offsets, with roots 3-10 cm long, c. 1 mm diam. Leaves 2-8; petioles 14-30 cm long, and 0.1-1cm diam. greenish, sheath 3-5 cm long; lamina ovate, varying to hastate, reniform or triangular forms, 5-12 cm long, 5-16 cm broad. Anterior lobes narrowly ovate, acuminate, posterior ones spreading obliquely ovate-oblong. Inflorescence spadix appearing with leaves; peduncle hidden in the soil, smooth, 1-1.5 cm long, 0.3-0.5 mm diam. greenish, shorter than petiole; tube ovate, 1.2-2 cm long ss and 0.5-1 cm broad, greenish. Spathe broadly ovate-lanceolate, 8-10 cm long, 2-3.5 cm broad, limb sgreenish outside, light greenish-purple inside; revoluate, purplish marginally, twisted-acuminate at apex. Floral axis shorter than spathe, with greenish stipe c. 0.2 mm long; pistillate flowers at base, sterile ones in the middle, preceded by naked zone and than by staminate flowers towards apex; pistillate zone conical, 0.4 mm x 0.2 mm in daim; naked zone, 0.6 cm long, staminate zone 0.5-1cm long and 0.2-0.3 cm in diam., cylindric. Pistillate flowers: purplish-white; sterile zone ca. 0.3-0.4 mm long; ovary sessile, sub-globose or oblong, greenish, c. 0.2 mm long, 1-locular, 1-ovuled; style very short, cylindrical, stigma sessile, punctate, greenish; sterile flowers 1-4 rows, yellowish, distinctly filiform, 3.5 mm long, flat, decurved, covering female zone partially. Staminate flowers: yellow, free, sessile, anthers dehiscent by apical pores. Spadix appendix cylindrical, 6.5 cm long, c. 0.2-0.4 mm diam., narrowly conical, light purplish, smooth, base truncate.