生活型

herb

形態特徵

• Tuber depressed globose, 2-7 cm in diam. Pseudostem 30-80 cm long, white to pale green, sometimes purple brown mottled. Cataphylls 3 or 4, greenish or reddish, sometimes with purple brown marks.
• Leaf 1 or 2; petiole 15-40 cm long, distinctly shorter than pseudostem; lamina radiately 9-15-foliolate; leaflets narrowly elliptic to elliptic, 12-25 cm long, 1-6 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, green above, glaucous beneath.
• Peduncle 6-12-(15) cm long, distinctly shorter than petiole. Spathe green or red with white lines along veins on outer surface; tube cylindrical, auriculate at mouth, 5-8.5 cm long, 1-2 cm in diam., greenish to yellowish green, sometimes with purplish red stripes on inner surface; blade triangular ovate, 4-8 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, white, green or purplish red, often with pale veins on inner surface, long acuminate, sometimes with a prolongated filiform tail at apex.
• Spadix 6-10 cm long including appendage; appendage clavate, erect, 4-7 cm long, apex more than 2 mm thick, base with fine bristly projections, these usually abundant on female spadix, scarce on male spadix. Infructescence recurved.

分布

• 台灣 : from low to medium elevations, throughout the island.
• 世界 : Widely distributed in northern India, Nepal, Sikkin, Burma, northern Thailand, and mainland China.

引證標本

TAIPEI: Chisingshan, Yang 1368. TAOYUAN: Parlin to Lalashan, Cheng 8. HSINCHU: Yuanyanghu Natural Preserved Area, Wang et al. 1055. MIAOLI: Kuanwu to Chutung, Wang et al. 9288. TAICHUNG: Anmashan, Huang 8120; Pilushi 11th watershed, Wang 3096. NANTOU: Kunyang to Yuanfeng, Wang 5093; Wushe to Chienching, Feung & Kao 4540. CHIAYI: Tataka, Wang et al. 5483. KAOHSIUNG: Tienchih, Wang 10393. ILAN: Taipingshan, Suzuki 187. HUALIEN: Yenhai logging tract, Wang et al. 7668. TAITUNG: Haituan District: between Mt.-hiking entrance and the peak of Takuanshan, Peng et al. 11737.

參考文獻

• HUANG, Tseng-Chieng, Flora of Taiwan, second edition 5: 673. 2000.  (Fl. Taiwan 2nd edit.)