| Description |
Tuber subglobose or depressed-globose, to ca. 15 cm in diam., ca. 12 cm high, pale to dark dirty brownish, producing seasonal offsets, these rhizomatous, gradually thickening to the top, to 10 cm long, and 1.5 cm in diam. Leaf solitary; petiole to ca. 1 cm long, ca. 3 cm in diam. at the base, smooth, background color pale green, with more or less large, irregular or elongate-oval dark green or blackish spots, sometimes accompanied by numerous smaller dark green spots; lamina highly dissected, to ca. 1.5 cm in diam.; leaflets elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate or obovate, 8-20 cm long, 4-8 cm in diam., margin undulate, top long-acuminate, upper surface mid-green. Inflorescence long-peduncled; peduncle as petiole, ca. 30-80 cm long; spathe elongate-triangular, 14-40 cm long, 6-14 cm in diam., spathe and limb not differentiated, top acute, outside and inside pale green, becoming yellowish green at male anthesis and then opening wider, base within sometimes with a pale purplish hue, with numerous, slightly distant, small, irregular or conic warts. Spadix sessile, shorter than spathe, 10-26 cm long, appendix with numerous, small conical warts. |
