Amorphophallus hohenackeri

Amorphophallus hohenackeri is a plant species in the family Araceae.

Amorphophallus hohenackeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Alismatales
Family:	Araceae
Genus:	Amorphophallus
Species:	A. hohenackeri
Binomial name
Amorphophallus hohenackeri (Schott) Engl. & Gehrm.
Synonyms
Corynophallus hohenackeri (Schott) Kuntze Hydrosme hohenackeri (Schott) Engl. Rhaphiophallus hohenackeri Schott

Description

The plant produces depressed sub-globose tubers with pale brown skin and slender offsets. The petiole is long, smooth, and pale yellowish-green with dark green mottling and cream speckles, subtended by a few pinkish cataphylls. The lamina is 30–45 cm across, with sessile elliptic leaflets that are dark green above, paler beneath, and slightly undulate along the margin. The inflorescence consists of a peduncle resembling the petiole in colour and pattern, a spathe that is light pinkish-yellow with purplish mottling outside and yellowish-green within, and a spadix nearly equal in length to the spathe. Female flowers have small green ovaries with 2–3 locules, while male flowers are yellow. The spadix appendix is cream-coloured, tapering towards the apex, and smooth above. The fruits are oblong, scarlet-red when ripe, and contain 2–3 ovoid seeds. Flowering occurs from March to May, with fruiting from May to August.^[1]

Distribution

It is endemic to South West India.^[2]