Alocasia odora

Nomes popularesFalso-inhameNome científicoAlocasia odora (Lindl.) K.KochSinônimosFamíliaAraceaeTipoNaturalizadaDescriçãoMassive pachycaul evergreen herb to 2.5 m with slightly milky latex. Stem erect to decumbent, with short stolons terminating in tubercles arising from the base. Leaves several to rather many together, clustered at the tips of stems of larger plants. Petiole to 1.5 m long; petiolar sheath membranous; lamina peltate, cordato-sagittate or cordato-ovate, to 130 by 100 cm, apex short acuminate, base margins undulate; primary lateral veins 9–12 on each side; interprimary veins forming well-defined interprimary collecting veins. Inflorescences 2–3 together among the leaf bases, subtended by membranous cataphylls. Peduncle stout, ca 35 cm long, exceeding the cataphylls at anthesis. Spathe ca 13–25 cm long, constricted about of the way from the base; lower part ovoid, green; limb broadly oblonglanceolate, 10–30 by 4–8 cm, cowl-like at anthesis, later reflexed, then deliquescent, membranous, greenish white. Spadix shorter than the spathe, shortly stipitate; female flower zone 1–2 by ca 1.5 cm diam.; ovaries pale green, ca 3 mm diam.; stigma sessile, weakly 3-lobed, the lobes blunt, pale green; sterile interstice equalling the male zone, ivory, very slightly narrowed corresponding to the spathe constriction; synandrodia , composed of rhombo-hexagonal, ca 2.5 mm diam.; male flower zone cylindric, ca 3–5 cm long, ca 2 cm diam., whitish; synandria rhombo-hexagonal, convex-topped due to cap-forming synconnective, ca 1.5 mm diam.; appendix elongate-conic, 3–5.5 by 1–2 cm, equalling length of the spadix, markedly thicker than the male zone at the base, thence slowly tapering, white. Fruiting spathe ca 6 cm long. Fruits globose, ca 1 cm diam., ripening Scarlet (BOYCE, 2008).CaracterísticaFloração / frutificaçãoDispersãoHabitatDistribuição geográficaSul: Santa CatarinaDomínios fitogeográficosMata AtlânticaTipo de vegetaçãoÁrea antrópica, Floresta Ombrófila MistaEtimologiaPropriedadesFitoquímicaFitoterapiaFitoeconomiaInjúriaComentáriosBibliografiaBOYCE, P.C. A review of Alocasia (Araceae: Colocasieae) for Thailand including a novel species and new species records from South-West Thailand. THAI FOR. BULL. (BOT.) 36: 1–17. 2008. Disponível em: <http://www.aroid.org/aroidl-archive/attachments/090903215315-1.pdf>.