Araceae
Eminium

Eminium spiculatum (Blume) Schott

First published in Syn. Aroid.: 17 (1856)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. Medit. to Iran. It is a tuberous geophyte and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org

General Description
Tuber depressed, 3-10 cm. LEAVES 3-6; petiole 15-40 cm; blade pedatipar-tite; terminal lobe oblong-lanceolate, acute; lateral lobes divided into 4-9 secondary lanceolate to linear lobes, spirally twisted and alternately directed up- and downwards. Scape shorter than petioles, hidden in the ground, about as thick as spathe-tube. INFLORESCENCE emitting a strong smell of dung and carrion, attracting beetles and flies. Spathe convolute at base into an oblong thickened and stiff tube, with margins free to its base, greenish or whitish on outside, with or without purple spots; spathe-limb fleshy, oblong-ovate, dark purple, wrinkled and densely warty on upper (inner) side. Appendage of spadix 6-7 cm, 5-7 mm thick, clavate, tuberculate-rugose, dark purple to greenish-yellow. Interspace between zones of pistillate and staminate flowers longer than both zones together; sterile flowers in interspace elongate-filiform, tapering and curved upwards. Pistillate flowers yellowish, tubercu-late; stigma sessile. Staminate flowers sessile, yellow to orange. INFRUCTESCENCE: Berries usually 1-seeded, white, with a leathery pericarp reticulate on surface. Seeds remaining in the ground, not dispersed.
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Sources

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    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

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