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Araceae
Stylochaeton zenkeri Engl.
SUMMARY
Plant erect on horizontal rhizome, 4-10 mm in diam., in fresh material, upright at the extremity; numerous adventitious roots; very long, over 15 cm. LEAVES petiolate, numerous, 7.5-28.5 cm long, deep violet, sheathed for less than half their length; sheath very broad, purple to pale green, confused with bracts; blade 7.5-20 x 4-11 cm, oblong or elliptic, rarely ovate, apex obtuse to subacute, base hastate, cordate or subtruncate; posterior lobes not longer than 2 cm, broadly obtuse or rounded; 3-6 pairs of primary veins ascending to the apex and connecting between them the thinner secondary veins, often almost invisible when dry, oblique, parallel. INFLORESCENCES axillary; peduncles violet-red, very short compared to the petioles, 2-5.5 cm long; spathe longer than the peduncle, 3.5-7.5 cm long, cream, white to greenish white, furrowed vertically, tubuliform, globose at base, lanceolate and acuminate, forming a cone in the upper part; spadix included, reaching to less than half the length of the spathe; male flowers pink to pale brown, numerous, 3-6 staminate, at their base a very short white perianth, in a flat form, from which emerges a rudimentary pistil; female flowers in only 1 ring of 2-5 ovaries, pale yellow to whitish pink; style thick, green; stigma discoid, equally green; perianth cupuliform and white; ovary trilocular with numerous anatropous per locule. INFRUCTESCENCE: Berries white with green markings or pink to purplish black, subglobose, ca. 5 mm diam.