Arisaema enneaphyllum

Herb to 120cm tall. Tuber subglobose, up to 8cm diam. LEAVES usually 2. Petioles with basal sheaths imbricate, forming pseudostem to about 75 cm tall, free apical part 7-25 cm long, greeni Leaf blade radiately divided to base, circular in outline, leaflets 5-10 (-12), subequal in size, lanceolate, elliptic or oblanceolate, acuminate, base cuneate, 7-19 x 1-5-6-5 cm, margins irregularly erose-serrate, sometimes almost entire, teeth rarely long-acuminate and then only irregularly so. INFLORESCENCE overtopping leaves, free part of peduncle 11-24 cm long, green. Spathe 9-24 cm long; tube broadly and shortly cylin-dric, slightly constricted apically, 3-5-7-5 x 2-3-3-5 cm, sometimes fused basally for up to 1-3 cm, outer surface green with obscure white longitudinalstripes; limb ovate, acuminate, often narrowly auriculate at base, longer than tube (sometimes more than twice as long), 6-17 x 2-8-5-8 cm, white on outer surface, inconspicuously white- and green-striped on inner surface near base, often blackish near margin at base, bent forwards over mouth of tube. Spadix bearing flowers of only one sex, 3-8 cm long, subequal to spathe tube; sterile appendix cylindric, conic or clavate, sometimes narrowed at base, 0-3-4 x 0-3-0-6 cm, green; staminate spadix with naked basal stipe 0-4-1 cm long, fertile part cylindric, 1-7-4-5 x 0-4-1-1cm, flowers ± densely congested; pistillate spadix ± sessile, fertile part cylindric to conic, 2-7-3-5 x 1-1-5 cm, flowers densely congested. Staminate flower composed of 2-3 (-4) stamens, anthers dehiscing by subcircular, oblique apical slits. Pistils ovoid, 3-4 mm long green, ovary 2-3 mm diam., tapering with short style. BERRIES subglobose, 5-7 mm diam., 3-5 seeded.