- Family:
- Araceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Arum L.
Arum hygrophilum Boiss.

[CATE]
CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org
- Phenology
- Flowering February to May.
- Habitat
- Stream sides, ditches, wet flushes, damp soil pockets at rock bases.
- Diagnostic
- Inflorescence borne beneath the leaves. Spathe-limb internally pale greenish-white with a narrow purple margin. Spadix appendix ? as long as the spathe-limb, slender cylindric, with no stipe, purple. (similar to Arum euxinum)
- General Description
- Tuberous herb sprouting in early autumn from a discoid vertically (rarely horizontally) orientated tuber 3-6 cm across, 1.5-2.5 cm thick. Petiole terete, 9-75 cm long, 3-6 mm wide, bright mid-green, occasionally with purple staining along the sheath margin and at the petiole base. Leaf- blade lanceolate-hastate, apex acute to subacute, 8-45 cm long, 5-14 cm wide, dark to bright mid-green. INFLORESCENCE unscented. Peduncle shorter than the leaves, terete, 15-45 cm long, 1.5-4 mm thick, bright mid-green. Spathe 7-14 cm long; spathe-tube ellipsoid, 2.5-3.8 cm long, 1.2-2.5 cm wide, waisted above, exterior pale to mid-green, occasionally with purple staining at the base and along the margin, rarely with the entire spathe-tube stained purple, interior deep purple, often with pale greenish white blotches on the rear wall near the base; spathe-limb oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 5-11.5 cm long, 3-3.5 cm wide, erect to slightly cucullate, acuminate, externally pale to mid-green, purple-flushed along the margin, internally pale greenish-white with a purple margin 0.5-1.5 mm wide.Spadix ? as long as the spathe-limb, 7.5-9.5 cm in total length; appendix slender-cylindric, without a stipe , 5-7.5 cm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, deep purple, occasionally blotched apically with paler purple. Staminodes in 2 or 3 whorls, forming a zone 2-3.5 mm long; bristles filiform, flexuous, 4-5 mm long, pale cream, ± purple at the tip; bases conic, verrucate, cream, stained with purple. Interstices : upper 0-2 mm long, longitudinally ridged, cream; lower ± absent. Staminate flowers in a roughly quadratic zone 4-7 mm long, 5-6 mm wide; anthers and connectives reddish purple. Pistillodes in 2 or 3 whorls forming a zone 2-3 mm long; bristles filiform, flexuous, cream, stained with purple; bases bulbiform, minutely verrucate, cream, speckled with purple. Pistillate flowers a cylindric cluster 4-10 mm long; ovaries oblong-fusiform, pale lime green with a faint purple ring around the stigma; stigma white. Fruiting spike oblong-cylindric, 4-6 cm long, 2-2.5 cm wide; berries angular-pyriform, 4-11 mm long, 3-5 mm wide. Germination epigeal.
- Distribution
- Morocco, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan.
Native to:
Cyprus, Lebanon-Syria, Morocco, Palestine, Turkey
Arum hygrophilum Boiss. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Aug 1, 1982 | Syngrassides, A. [1462], Cyprus | K000480508 | No | ||
Aug 1, 1982 | Scott-Moncrieff [1658], Cyprus | K000480511 | No | ||
Aug 1, 1982 | Syngrassides, A. [1462], Cyprus | K000480507 | No | ||
Aug 1, 1982 | Syngrassides, A. [1462], Cyprus | K000480509 | No | ||
Aug 1, 1982 | [Suart, J.B.] [63], Cyprus | K000480512 | No | ||
Aug 1, 1982 | Meikle, R.D. [2552], Cyprus | K000480505 | No | ||
Aug 1, 1982 | s.coll. [1147], Cyprus | K000480513 | No | ||
Aug 1, 1982 | Meikle, R.D. [2552], Cyprus | K000480506 | No | ||
Aug 1, 1982 | s.coll. [355], Cyprus | K000480514 | No | ||
Aug 1, 1982 | Syngrassides, A. [1462], Cyprus | K000480510 | No | ||
Jun 1, 1982 | Simpson, N.D. [53192], Jordan | K000286075 | Yes | ||
Jun 1, 1982 | Archibald, J.C. [1085], Lebanon | K000480497 | No | ||
Jun 1, 1982 | Lowne, B.T. [s.n.], Israel | K000480501 | No | ||
Jun 1, 1982 | Lowne, B.T. [s.n.], Israel | K000480499 | No | ||
Israel | 49763.000 | No | |||
51394.000 | No | ||||
Boyce, P., Israel | 51304.000 | No | |||
Dinsmore, J.E. [4643], Israel | K000480493 | No | |||
Samuelsson, G. [4226], Lebanon | K000480515 | No | |||
Davis, P.H. [4315], Jordan | K000480496 | No | |||
Bornmüller, J. [1474], Israel | K000480518 | No | |||
Sintenis, P. [129], Cyprus | K000480504 | No | |||
Boissier, E. [s.n.], Syria | K000400279 | syntype | Yes | ||
Sintenis, P. [129], Cyprus | K000480503 | No | |||
Trethewy, A.W. [67], Morocco | K000480490 | No | |||
Trethewy, A.W. [257], Morocco | K000480491 | No | |||
Davis, P.H. [4388], Jordan | K000480495 | No | |||
Meyers, F.S. [653], Jordan | K000286076 | No | |||
Meyers, F.S. [6643], Israel | K000480492 | No | |||
s.coll. [643], Israel | K000480494 | No | |||
Sintenis, P. [129], Cyprus | K000480502 | No | |||
Nicolson, D.H. [1733], Lebanon | K000480517 | No | |||
Blanche, I. [95], Lebanon | K000480500 | No | |||
Meyers, F.S. [2643], Jordan | K000286077 | No |
First published in Diagn. Pl. Orient. 13: 8 (1854)
Accepted by
- Dobignard, D. & Chatelain, C. (2010). Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du nord 1: 1-455. Éditions des conservatoire et jardin botaniques, Genève.
- Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
- Güner, A. (ed.) (2018). Resimli Türkiye Floras? (Illustrated Flora of Turkey) 2: 1-1054. ANG Vakf?/Nezahat Gökyi?it Botanik Bahçesi, Istambul.
- Hand, R. (ed.) (2015). Supplementary notes to the flora of Cyprus VIII Willdenowia 45: 245-259.
Literature
CATE Araceae
- Boyce, P.C. 1993. The Genus Arum. 196 pp.
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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.
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