- Family:
- Araceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Homalomena Schott
Homalomena humilis (Jack) Hook.f.
[CATE]
CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org
- Distribution
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Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo.
- General Description
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Deciduous herb to 1.3 m tall. Subterranean stem a subglobose, stoloniferous tuber, up to 4 cm across and 2 cm high, white, with stolons to 10 × 1 cm. Pseudostem ca 20 cm long, green, mottled grey and pink. Leaf solitary, exceptionally bifoliate; cataphylls to 20 cm long, purple; petiole to 1 m long, similar in colour to the pseudostem; leaf blade radiate; leaflets 7–11, ovate, 10–20 × 4–6 cm, margins entire, apex acute, ending in an acumen 1 cm long, base cuneate and sessile, leaflets plain green, with impressed veins above, underside paler. Inflorescence held below the foliage; peduncle 5–20 cm long, green and pink mottled; spathe tube cylindrical, 4–6 × 1–1.2 cm, green with thin white stripes, spathe mouth margins recurved; spathe limb lanceolate, 5–8 × 3–4 cm, green, flushed red-brown, ending in a long brown tail to 25 cm long; spadix appendix well exserted from the tube, 5–6 cm long × 3–4 mm wide, pale green, stout, cylindrical, ending in a rounded and rugose apex curving forward; sessile, pistillate inflorescences with green bristles above the fertile part; fertile zone staminate or pistillate, cylindrical, 1.5–2 cm long; staminate flowers loosely arranged; pistillate flowers densely arranged; ovaries bottle-shaped, green; stigma sessile, penicillate, white. Infructescence on an erect peduncle, globose, 3–5 cm; fruits red-orange when ripe, 8–10 × 5–7 mm, top rounded, up to 3 seeds per berry. Seeds globose, 3–4 mm diam.
- Habitat
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Lithophytic on rocks in lowland evergreen forest; on limestone or granite.
Native to:
Borneo, Jawa, Malaya, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand
- Aglaonema pygmaeum Hassk.
- Calla angustifolia Jack
- Calla humilis Jack
- Chamaecladon angustifolium (Jack) Schott
- Chamaecladon humile (Jack) Miq.
- Chamaecladon lanceolatum Miq.
- Chamaecladon purpurascens Schott
- Chamaecladon pygmaeum (Hassk.) Engl.
- Homalomena angustifolia (Jack) Hook.f.
- Homalomena coccinea Alderw.
- Homalomena ellipticifolia Furtado
- Homalomena johorensis Engl.
- Homalomena mentawiensis Furtado
- Homalomena propinqua Schott
- Homalomena pumila Hook.f.
- Homalomena purpurascens (Schott) Hook.f.
- Homalomena pusilla Alderw.
- Homalomena pygmaea (Hassk.) Engl.
- Homalomena repens Ridl.
- Homalomena rubrovaginata Alderw.
- Homalomena sebessiana Alderw.
- Homalomena undulatifolia Ridl.
- Homalomena velutina Scort. ex Hook.f.
- Homalomena yohorensis Engl.
Homalomena humilis (Jack) Hook.f. appears in other Kew resources:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2000 | Lobb, T. [s.n.], Jawa | K000675846 | lectotype | Yes | |
| Sands, M.J.S. [180], Indonesia | 32886.000 | No | |||
| Scortechini, B [276b], Peninsular Malaysia | Homalomena velutina | K000675807 | lectotype | Yes | |
| Ridley, H.N. [14304], Peninsular Malaysia | Homalomena undulatifolia | K000675806 | Yes | ||
| s.coll. [s.n.], Peninsular Malaysia | Homalomena angustifolia | K000675821 | holotype | Yes | |
| Boden-Kloss, C. [14777], Sumatera | Homalomena mentawiensis | K000675826 | isotype | Yes | |
| Mitchell [44], Brunei | Homalomena propinqua | 59095.000 | No | ||
| Yapp, R.H. [463], Peninsular Malaysia | Homalomena repens | K000675838 | Yes | ||
| Yapp, R.H. [463], Peninsular Malaysia | Homalomena repens | K000675839 | Yes |
First published in Fl. Brit. India 6: 533 (1893)
Accepted by
- Boyce, P.C., Sookchaloem, D., Hetterscheid, W.L.A., Gusman, G., Jacobsen, N., Idei, T. & Nguyen, V.D. (2012). Flora of Thailand 11(2): 101-325. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.
- 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.
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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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