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Tuber ± depressed-globose, ± 7 cm. in diameter.. Petiole 20–40 cm. long, sheathed from base for about half total length; blade hastate-sagittate; median lobe oblong-lanceolate to ovate, 10–40 cm. long, 5–9 cm. broad, irregularly spotted with small, white-diaphanous, necrotic areas lacking green tissue; basal lobes 5–10 cm. long, truncate, rounded or subacute, widely spreading.. Inflorescence subequal to leaves; peduncle 15–30 cm. long, 0.5–1.2 cm. in diameter.. Spathe 9–12 cm. long; tube obconic, 5 cm. long, 2–3.5 cm. in diameter, inner surface lemon to greenish yellow, Tanzanian material lacking dark basal patch; limb broadly ovate, long-acuminate, 4–8 cm. long, 5–8 cm. broad, lemon to greenish yellow on inner surface.. Spadix 5–6.5 cm. long, with naked basal stipe 0.5–0.8 cm. long; staminate part cylindric, subequal to pistillate part, 2–2.8 cm. long, 0.4 cm. in diameter; pistillate part cylindric, 2–2.5 cm. long, 0.8 cm. in diameter, lacking staminodes.. Stamens 1 mm. long, 0.5 mm. broad.. Pistil with subglobose ovary 2–3.5 mm. in diameter, narrowing abruptly into a slender 1 mm. long style; stigmas capitate.. Fig. 9/1–8.
Perennial geophyte, 400-750 mm high. Leaves deciduous, triangular, arrow-shaped, basal lobes rounded or pointed, 150-400 x 100-250 mm; sparsely to densely spotted or not. Inflorescence a spadix wrapped in a spathe; spathe cylindrical, 40-100 x 30-80 mm, white, cream-coloured or pale yellow, seldom with a purple blotch at base inside; female flowers without staminodes. Flowering time Oct.-Apr.
A herb. It grows from a rhizome. The leaves are large and arrow shaped. The leaves do not have transparent blotches but they can be speckled with white spots. The spathes around the flower are yellow to white and 15 cm long.
