Furtadoa

Furtadoa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe: Homalomeneae
Genus: Furtadoa

Furtadoa is a genus of flowering plants in the Araceae family. It consists of only two species F. mixta and F. sumatrensis. The genus was first described in 1981 by Hotta and is found to be endemic to Sumatra. Both of the species have elliptical leaves with a creeping habit. The spathes are green and the spadix has a zone of female flowers that runs down half of the length of the spadix.

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