- Family:
- Araceae Juss.
Schismatoglottis calyptrata (Roxb.) Zoll. & Moritzi

[CATE]
CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org
- Vernacular
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guang xi luo yan
- Phenology
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Fl. Jun.
- Habitat
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Dense tropical forests, forest understories, on rocks.
- General Description
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Herbs, stoloniferous, 15–60cm tall. Petiole 5–50cm, smooth, proximal 1/3 sheathing, sheath persistent; leaf blade mid-green, sometimes variegated, cordate to sagittate, 7–35 × 4–18cm; midrib abaxially prominent, primary lateral veins 6–15 per side, entirely raised abaxially, nearly always raised adaxially toward midrib, marginally impressed, secondary venation arising mostly from midrib. Inflorescences 1–8 together; peduncle erect at anthesis, then deflexed, 6–20cm. Spathe 3.5–12cm, basal part green, narrowly ovoid, ca. 1/2 length of whole spathe limb, differentiated by an abrupt constriction, at female anthesis much inflated, creamy to pale greenish yellow, narrowing and turbinate, completely surrounding spadix and gaping ventrally or with margins loosely overlapping, conspicuously mucronate at apex, caducous immediately after female anthesis. Spadix ca. 3/4 length of spathe, narrowly hourglass-shaped; female zone ca. 1/2 length of spadix, obliquely inserted or partially adnate to spathe, 5–8mm in diam., distally tapering; pistils congested, pale green, flask-shaped, ca. 1 × 0.5mm, distally more widely spaced and subglobose; interpistillar staminodes few, white, clavate, taller than pistils; sterile zone absent; male zone ivory, narrowly obconic, ca. 1/2 length of female zone, distally 0.5–1cm in diam.; anthers dumbbell-shaped, ca. 0.5 × 1mm; appendix creamy yellow, bullet-shaped, basally somewhat wider than apex of male zone; appendix staminodes columnar, irregularly polygonal, ca. 0.5mm in diam. Fruiting spathe declined, urceolate.
Native to:
Bismarck Archipelago, China Southeast, Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Vanuatu
Schismatoglottis calyptrata (Roxb.) Zoll. & Moritzi appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jun 20, 2000 | Willis, F.R. [66], Indonesia | 71457.000 | No | ||
Jun 1, 2000 | Zollinger, H. [318], Jawa | K000291709 | isotype | Yes | |
Jun 1, 2000 | s.coll. [s.n.], Jawa | K000255474 | Yes | ||
Dec 1, 1999 | Hay, A. [6026], Papua New Guinea | 70837.000 | No | ||
Dec 1, 1999 | Wheatley, M. [117], Papua New Guinea | 70844.000 | No | ||
Dec 1, 1999 | Hetterscheid, W. [s.n.], Indonesia | 70851.000 | No | ||
Dec 1, 1999 | Hay, A. [6014], Papua New Guinea | 70854.000 | No | ||
Dec 1, 1999 | Wheatley, M. [43], Papua New Guinea | 70856.000 | No | ||
Dec 1, 1999 | Lorzing, J.A. [5441], Sumatera | K000291708 | holotype | Yes | |
Dec 1, 1999 | Gibbs, L.S. [6167], Irian Jaya | K000291725 | holotype | Yes | |
Dec 1, 1999 | s.coll. [s.n.], New Guinea | K000291726 | epitype | Yes | |
Dec 1, 1999 | s.coll. [s.n.] | K000291727 | Yes | ||
Jan 1, 1998 | Forlonge, L.J. [276], Philippines | 70840.000 | No | ||
Malaysia | 46560.000 | No | |||
Simpson, D.A. [89/147], Brunei | 56607.000 | No | |||
58076.000 | No | ||||
58116.000 | No | ||||
58134.000 | No | ||||
Wilkin, P. [833], Thailand | 60786.000 | No | |||
Herscovitch, C., Malaysia | 61226.000 | No | |||
Herscovitch, C., Malaysia | 61227.000 | No | |||
Herscovitch, C., Australia | 63396.000 | No | |||
Herscovitch, Australia | 63397.000 | No | |||
Herscovitch, C., Australia | 63399.000 | No | |||
Herscovitch, C., Malaysia | 63638.000 | No | |||
Herscovitch, C., Malaysia | 63644.000 | No |
First published in A.Moritzi, Syst. Verz. Java: 83 (1846)
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.
- Kurniawan, A., Adjie, B. & Boyce, P.C. (2011). Studies on the Araceae of Sulawesi I: New taxa of Schismatoglottis and Homalomena, and a preliminary checklist and keys for Sulawesi Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica 61: 40-50.
- Mansor, M., Boyce, P.C., Othman, A.S. & Sulaiman, B. (2012). The Araceae of peninsular Malaysia: 1-146. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia.
- Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 23: 1-515. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
Literature
CATE Araceae
- Hen(g) Li, Guang Hua Zhu, Boyce, P.C., Murata, J., Hetterscheid, W.L.A., Bogner, J. & Jacobsen, N. 2010. Araceae in Flora of China @ efloras.org.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 23: 1-515. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
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Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG 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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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0