Accession Data:
Sauromatum venosum (Dryand. ex Aiton) Kunth
- Common Name: Indian Voodoo Lily
- Family: Araceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Trop. Africa to China (Yunnan)
- Description: Tuber depressed globose, to ca. 9cm high and ca. 15cm in diam., producing numerous annual offsets, these globose or depressed globose. Petiole yellowish green, with rounded purplish brown spots, 20–100cm; leaf blade 9–11-pedatifid; central lobe oblong or oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, 10–40 × 4–20cm, acuminate; lateral leaflets elliptic, gradually smaller toward distal end of rachis. Inflorescence appearing before leaves; peduncle greenish white, with or without a few brown spots, 3–7cm, sometimes elongating during fruiting. Spathe base outside dull dark violet, inside rich reddish purple, ellipsoid, 5–10 × 2–4cm; limb convolute at base, ca. 10cm, distally outside as base but slightly darker and with a few violet longitudinal stripes, inside background color yellowish, almost entirely covered by numerous orbicular to elliptic, confluent dark purple spots, lanceolate, 30–70 × 8–10cm, apex acuminate. Spadix slightly shorter than or as long as spathe; female zone subcylindric, 2–2.5 × 1–1.5cm; ovary violet or pale purple, obovoid, 2–4-ovuled; sterile zone 8–8.5cm, proximal 2–2.5cm sparsely covered with long staminodes, distally grooved and with a few distant conic projections, proximally whitish, distally pale brownish violet; staminodes yellow, clavate, 4–10mm; male zone 1–2 × 1–1.5cm; stamens yellow; appendix at first erect, finally recurved, pale brown to pale violet or lead-colored, terete, to30 cm, ca. 1cm in diam. at base, obtuse. Fruiting zone globose or subcylindric, naked, to ca. 9cm in diam.; berries crowded, bright purple, cylindric, 5–10 × 2–4mm, angulate, apex truncate. 4
- Culture: Winter dormant, flowers typically appearing before foliage although under greenhouse conditions multiple corms in a single pot may grow out of sync with one another.
- USDA Zone: 6a-11
Accession Data:
- Accession # 199200245
- Source: Unknown
- Accession Date: 12-31-1992
- Bench: 3203 - DORMANT:South
- Currently: active - healthy
- Qty: 1 confirmed on 01-22-2025
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Alismatales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Araceae
- SubFamily: Aroideae
- Tribe: Areae
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Flowering Data:
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References (internal):
- Type Species
- EEB 3203 - Developmental Plant Morphology
- corm
- Fly pollination (myophily and sapromyophily)
- EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Central African Republic / Cameroon / Gabon / Gulf of Guinea Is. / Zaire / Ethiopia / Sudan / Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda / Angola / Malawi / Mozambique / Zambia / Saudi Arabia / Yemen / China South-Central / Tibet / Assam / Bangladesh / East Himalaya / India / Nepal / Pakistan / West Himalaya / Myanmar
References (external):
- Botanica, Turner & Wasson, 1997, CD-ROM Version
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Wednesday, September 07, 2016.
- WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Wednesday, September 07, 2016.
- Sauromatum venosum at Plants of the World Online. Last accessed Tuesday, 15 January, 2019.
data regenerated on Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:30:20 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
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