Araceae
Aglaonema

Aglaonema brevispathum (Engl.) Engl.

First published in Pflanzenr., IV, 23Dc: 32 (1915)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Indo-China. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Descriptions

CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org

Distribution

Myanmar through Thailand to Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.

General Description

Small to medium-sized, solitary to clump-forming herb to 30 cm tall. Stem repent and often branching, 0.5–1.0 cm thick. Leaves few together, each subtended by a pale green membranaceous cataphyll, this soon marcescent brown and papery, commonly clasping the petiole for most of its length; petioles 7–33 cm × 0.5–1.6 mm; petiolar sheath very short, ca 1 cm long, open; leaf blade lanceolate, rarely narrowly elliptic, 10–24 × 3.9–8 cm, base rounded or broadly acute, often unequal, apex usually acute to acuminate, coriaceous, either plain green or variegated in the form of a central white stripe, with scattered white spots; primary lateral veins 4–7 per side; higher order venation striate. Inflorescence solitary; peduncle 5.5–15.5 cm, usually 1/3–3/4 petiole length, erect; spathe ovate, spreading at staminate anthesis, then closing, 1.5–3.5 cm, apex apiculate, base decurrent for 0.5–1.3 cm, white, marcescent late in fruit development; spadix ellipsoidal, 1.2–2.5 cm × ca 8 mm, equalling to slightly exceeding spathe, stipitate, stipe 2–10 mm; pistillate flower zone ca 1/5 the length of the spadix, 2–5 mm long, with fewer than 10 flowers; staminate flower zone ca 4/5 of the length of the spadix, 1–2 cm × 0.3–0.6 cm; fruits ellipsoidal, 1.2–1.7 × 0.5–1.0 cm, ripening deep red.

Habitat

Lowland dry dipterocarp forest, often along on river banks. 100–450 m asl

[CATE]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Uses

Use

None recorded.

[CATE]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • CATE Araceae

    • Haigh, A., Clark, B., Reynolds, L., Mayo, S.J., Croat, T.B., Lay, L., Boyce, P.C., Mora, M., Bogner, J., Sellaro, M., Wong, S.Y., Kostelac, C., Grayum, M.H., Keating, R.C., Ruckert, G., Naylor, M.F. and Hay, A., CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0