Arisaema sarracenioides
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| Arisaema sarracenioides | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Araceae |
| Genus: | Arisaema |
| Species: | A. sarracenioides |
| Binomial name | |
| Arisaema sarracenioides E.Barnes & C.E.C.Fisch. | |
Arisaema sarracenioides is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Araceae.
Deciduous, dioecious, succulent perennial herb, about 70 cm tall. The plant bears a tuberous, depressed-globose corm (2.5–4 cm diameter), yellow to greenish-yellow inside, often producing offsets.[1] Leaf solitary, radiatisect, with 5–7 elliptic-obovate to oblanceolate leaflets on a long, mottled petiole (40–70 cm). Inflorescence arises below the leaf; spathe 18–22 cm long, white with purple stripes, and a cucullate limb ending in a short tail. Spadix with distinct male and female forms; female spadix conical with compact green pistils, male spadix slender with purple anthers. Fruiting spike cylindrical, borne on an erect peduncle with compact berries.[2]
