Dracontium
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| Dracontium | |
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| Botanical illustration of Dracontium spruceanum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Araceae |
| Subfamily: | Lasioideae |
| Genus: | Dracontium Blume ex Decne. |
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Dracontium is a genus of flowering plants similar to those of Amorphophallus. Dracontium species can be distinguished by their inflorescence, which is smaller and unisexual.[1] The plant has a large tuber similar to that of Amorphophallus, but rounder, and with no central and circular scar mark. When Dracontium plants begin to flower, the tuber swells and smoothens.[1]
Species
More than twenty Dracontium species have been documented:[2]
- Dracontium amazonense G.H.Zhu & Croat
- Dracontium angustispathum G.H.Zhu & Croat
- Dracontium asperispathum G.H.Zhu & Croat
- Dracontium asperum K. Koch
- Dracontium bogneri G.H.Zhu & Croat
- Dracontium croatii G.H.Zhu
- Dracontium dubium Kunth
- Dracontium gigas (Seem.) Engl.
- Dracontium grandispathum G.H.Zhu & Croat
- Dracontium grayumianum G.H.Zhu & Croat
- Dracontium guianense G.H.Zhu & Croat
- Dracontium iquitense E.C.Morgan & J.A.Sperling
- Dracontium longipes Engl.
- Dracontium margaretae Bogner
- Dracontium nivosum (Lem.) G.H.Zhu
- Dracontium peruvianum G.H.Zhu & Croat
- Dracontium pittieri Engl.
- Dracontium plowmanii G.H.Zhu & Croat
- Dracontium polyphyllum L.
- Dracontium prancei G.H.Zhu & Croat
- Dracontium purdieanum (Schott) Engl.
- Dracontium soconuscum Matuda
- Dracontium spruceanum (Schott) G.H.Zhu
- Dracontium ulei K.Krause
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.
- ↑ "Dracontium". The Plant List. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. 2010 onwards. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
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