| Title | Arisaema menghaiense (Araceae), a new epiphytic species from South Yunnan, China |
| Author | Yin, JT |
| Publication | NOVON |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Corresponding Author | Yin, JT |
| Abstract | Arisaema menghaiense J. T Yin, H. Li & Z. F. Xu. (sect. Pistillata Engler) is described and illustrated as a new species of Araceae from South Yunnan, China. It is closely related to Arisaema lobatum Engler in having a globose tuber, trifoliolate leaf blades, a unisexual spadix, and an erect cylindrical appendix. It differs in its epiphytic habit, the inflorescence that appears before the leaf, a green (female) or pale purple (male) spathe with a filiform acumen ca. 60 cm (male) or 25 cm (female) long, a pale green, erect, sessile cylindrical spadix appendix with a few acute neuter flowers basally and anther thecae opening by an apical slit. |
