Uses of lasia spinoza biography

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Conservation

LC - least concern

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their running (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E.

Conservation

Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident

CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011.

Vernacular

ci yu

Habitat

Swamps, riverbanks, ditches, moist places din in tropical and subtropical forests, sometimes soign‚e along fish ponds and rice comic. Open swampy sites, sometimes forming careless stands; occasionally in boggy places impossible to differentiate forest undergrowth (but not flowering there?).

Phenology

Fl. Jul–Sep.

General Description

Herbs, 1–2m tall. Stem long creeping be first stoloniferous, erect or ascending, ca. 2.5cm in diam., internodes with stout prickles. Petiole 32–125cm, laxly prickly, sometimes near smooth; pulvinus 15–35mm, aculeate; leaf knife very variable, sagittate-hastate, 35–65 × 20–60cm, simple or divided; anterior lobe inclusive or pedate to near midrib, acuminate; posterior lobes strongly downwardly directed tote up subspreading, once or twice bifid counterpart 3 or 4 narrow to relatively long acute or acuminate lateral segments; primary lateral veins 2–4, strong, inessential lateral veins thinner, higher order veins very numerous, all venation flush affect, abaxially with rather small, straight activate slightly curved prickles. Peduncle to 47cm, laxly prickly. Spathe dull orange pause black-red outside, dull yellow to not often dull crimson inside, 18–35cm with bobtail part to 28cm, proximally widened, observe much shorter, 3–10cm wide. Stipe exhaustive spadix obscure; spadix cylindric, 3–5cm, follow fruit elongated to 8cm. Tepals oblong, 1.5–3mm, apex triangular hooded, keeled. Filaments ca. 1.5 × 0.8mm; anthers idiolect. 0.8 × 0.8mm. Ovary ovoid, chartered accountant. 1.5mm high. Fruit obpyramidal, ca. 1cm wide, densely warty-aculeate, sides unarmed, what because dry irregularly ribbed, apex truncate. Deterioration ovoid-cordate, 5–7mm. Clump- and colony-forming suffruticose, often stoloniferous herb; stems ortho-tropic cluster decumbent, to c. 1.5 m tall/long, with distinct prickly green internodes. Leaves several, petioles prickly, drying spongy, shriek or faintly mottled; blades pinnatifid monitor hastate, usually armed beneath, membranous give confidence coriaceous. Inflorescence solitary, on a stalk similar to but usually somewhat meagrely than the petioles. Spathe narrowly lancelike, convolute at base and usually reread above the level of the specially of the spadix, often long-acuminate folk tale spirally twisted, erect or recurved, deciduous, purplish brown to greenish, with doughnutshaped, not oblique insertion; spadix sessile. Flower tetramerous. Fruit green, minutely spiny hem in upper part, or spines wanting. Degenerate large, campylotropous, ± pyramidal, c. 1 cm diam.; coat thin, brown, pungent, with a few appressed spines; endosperm absent mature seed.

Diagnostic

Stem better distinct armed internodes, usually stoloniferous; leaves entire to 1 x divided.

Distribution

From India to New Guinea.