生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Perennial herbs.
• Leaves cordate, the margins entire; petiole purple.
• Inflorescences at near apex of leafy plant, solitary or several in each floral sympodium, always appearing with leaves; spathe, ovoid to ellipsoid, persistent; spadix densely flowered, male zone longer than female zone; flowers unisexual; male flower 4-6-androus, stamens connate, anthers lateral; female flowers, yellowish ovary 2-4-locular, ovules several to numerous; stigma subhemispheric or 2-4-lobed.
• Fruit not seen.

分布

• 台灣 : Cultivated and escaped in southern Taiwan.
• 世界 : Native of tropical America.

引證標本

TAINAN: Kantoushan, Hsu 9264. TAITUNG: Lanyu Is., Chang 16756, Hunag, Hsiao & Yeh 17969.

參考文獻

• HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 693. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)