AMORPHOPHALLUS CARNEUS

Species

Jan 18

Written By BostonJungle

ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:

Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society No. 41 (1904) P.47

SYNONYMS:

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS: N/A

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS: N/A

ACCEPTED INFRASPECIFICS: N/A

OTHER: Amorphophallus carnea

DISTRIBUTION: Thailand, Malaysia

CLIMATE: N/A

ECOLOGY: N/A

SPECIES DESCRIPTION:

Tuber hemispheric 3 inches across

INFLORESCENCE:

Peduncle 3 inches and a half long, smooth gray green with brown blotches, sheath at base 2 inches long. Spathe 5 inches long, loosely convolute at the base with a broad limb pinkish with brown blotches, paler within. Spadix rather longer. Appendix conic obtuse 3 inches long 1 inch through at the base fleshed low obscurely cancellate. Stamens densely crowded. Female portion ovaries shortly pedicellate, broad flask shaped, style short and thick. Stigma lobed.

VARIEGATED FORMS: N/A

ETYMOLOGY: The species epithet, similar to Amorphophallus carnosus, is derived from the latin carnea/carneus which translates to flesh, likely referring in this case to the flesh-colored spathe of Amorphophallus carneus

NOTES:

CULTIVARS: N/A

HYBRIDS: N/A