Amorphophallus occurs as big genus of a few 170 tropical tuberous herbaceous plants from either a Arum personal (Araceae).

Which are actually average lowl& plants, growing in the tropical and semitropic zones of the paleotropics, from either West Africa to the Pacific Islands. None of the children come incurred in the Americas. Virtually all mintage come autochthonous. It develop sooner in disturbed evidence, like secondary forests.

These microscopic to massive plants have a globular tuber. From either top of this tuber, one leaf issues, which can be as much as Single m yearn, followed, in maturity, by one flower. This leaf consists of the vertical leaf stalk & the horizontal blade, which will consist of the total of little leaflets. A leaf lives 1 growing year. A peduncle (= primary flower stalk) may be yearn or even short.

When average in a Araceae, these coinage get an inflorescence consisting of an stretch or even ovoid spathe (the sheating bract) which unremarkably envelops the spadix (the flower spike by using a heavy axis). A spathe might own different colors, however mostly brownish-purple of whitish-green. On the in, it contain ridges or even warts, functioning when insect traps.

A plants come monoecious. the spadix has diminutive flowers : female flowers, those days are gone than a pistil, at the bottom, so male flowers, actually the class action of stamens, so the blank unfertile vicinity. This previous a share, known as 'a appendix', consists of unfertile flowers, known as 'staminodes', & may be especially big. No corolla.

Another time a spaa opens, pollenation must happen the equivalent day. the appendix emits a scent of decaying flesh, attracting insects. However the total of metal money gives off the pleasant odor. Across a total of ingenious insect traps, pollinating insects come saved within the spathe to dump pollen on the female flowers. These stay open merely a single day, when a male flowers come however closed. These open so a next day, however by so a female flowers come there is no elongated open. A male flowers shower a cornered insects by having pollen. When a insects escape, it could so pollinate an additional flower.

the pollinated flowers so prepare a global berry as a fruit. These may be red, orange-red, white, white-&-yellow, blue.

A titan arum, the world's biggest inflorescence, belongs to this genus. It potty email the height of Two.Quintuplet m & the breadth of Unity.Fivesome m. The runner-second best is Amorphophallus gigas, which is taller, however has the somewhat little flower. Amorphophallus konjac tubers come utilized to produce konjaku, a Japanese thickening professional containing glucomannan.

A few mintage come known as voodoo lily, as come occasionally coinage of Sauromatum (also in the Araceae).

A title 'Amorphophallus' is from either a Greek words 'amorphos' & 'phallos', meaning 'deformed phallus'.

Species
Amorphophallus aberrans Amorphophallus abyssinicus Amorphophallus abyssinicus subsp. abyssinicus Amorphophallus abyssinicus subsp. akeassii Amorphophallus abyssinicus subsp. unyikae Amorphophallus albispathus Amorphophallus albus Amorphophallus amygdaloides Amorphophallus angolensis Amorphophallus angolensis subsp. angolensis Amorphophallus angolensis subsp. maculatus Amorphophallus angulatus Amorphophallus angustispathus Amorphophallus ankarana Amorphophallus annulifer Amorphophallus antsingyensis Amorphophallus aphyllus Amorphophallus asper Amorphophallus asterostigmatus Amorphophallus atrorubens Amorphophallus atroviridis Amorphophallus barthlottii Amorphophallus baumannii Amorphophallus beccarii Amorphophallus becquaertii Amorphophallus bonaccordensis Amorphophallus borneensis Amorphophallus boyceanus Amorphophallus brachyphyllus Amorphophallus brevispathus Amorphophallus bufo Amorphophallus bulbifer Amorphophallus calabaricus Amorphophallus calabaricus subsp. calabaricus Amorphophallus calabaricus subsp. mayoi Amorphophallus canaliculatus Amorphophallus carneus Amorphophallus chlorospathus Amorphophallus cicatricifer Amorphophallus cirrifer Amorphophallus coaetaneus Amorphophallus commutatus Amorphophallus consimilis Amorphophallus corrugatus Amorphophallus costatus Amorphophallus coudercii Amorphophallus cruddasianus Amorphophallus curvistylis Amorphophallus dactylifer Amorphophallus declinatus Amorphophallus decus-silvae : West-Java Giant Amorphophallus Amorphophallus discophorus Amorphophallus dracontioides Amorphophallus dunnii Amorphophallus dzuii Amorphophilus eburneus Amorphophilus echinatus Amorphophallus eichleri Amorphophallus elatus Amorphophallus elegans Amorphophallus elliottii Amorphophallus excentricus Amorphophallus forbesii Amorphophallus galbra Amorphophallus gallaensis Amorphophallus gigas : Sumatra Giant Amorphophallus Amorphophallus gliruroides Amorphophallus glossophyllus Amorphophallus goetzei Amorphophallus gomboczianus Amorphophallus gracilior Amorphophallus gracilis Amorphophallus haematospadix Amorphophallus harmandii Amorphophallus hayi Amorphophallus henryi : Taiwan Amorphophallus Amorphophallus hetterscheidii Amorphophallus hewittii Amorphophallus hildebrandtii Amorphophallus hirsutus Amorphophallus hirtus Amorphophallus hohenackeri Amorphophallus hottae Amorphophallus impressus Amorphophallus incurvatus Amorphophallus infundibuliformis Amorphophallus interruptus Amorphophallus johnsonii Amorphophallus kachinensis Amorphophallus kiusianus Amorphophallus konjac : Devil's Tongue, Elephant Foot, Elephant-yam, Leopard Palm, Snake Palm, Umbrella Arum Amorphophallus konkanensis Amorphophallus koratensis Amorphophallus krausei Amorphophallus lambii Amorphophallus lanuginosus Amorphophallus laoticus Amorphophallus lewallei Amorphophallus linearis Amorphophallus linguiformis Amorphophallus longicornus Amorphophallus longiconnectivus Amorphophallus longispathaceus Amorphophallus longistylus Amorphophallus longituberosus Amorphophallus luzoniensis Amorphophallus lyratus Amorphophallus macrorhizus Amorphophallus manta Amorphophallus margaritifer Amorphophallus margretae Amorphophallus maximus Amorphophallus maximus subsp. fischeri Amorphophallus maximus subsp. maximus Amorphophallus maxwellii Amorphophallus mekongensis Amorphophallus merrillii Amorphophallus mildbraedii Amorphophallus minor Amorphophallus mossambicensis Amorphophallus muelleri Amorphophallus mullendersii Amorphophallus mysorensis Amorphophallus nanus Amorphophallus napalensis Amorphophallus napiger Amorphophallus nicolsonianus Amorphophallus obovoideus Amorphophallus obscurus Amorphophallus ochroleucus Amorphophallus opertus Amorphophallus paeoniifolius : Whitespot Giant Arum, Elephant Yam Amorphophallus palawanensis Amorphophallus parvulus Amorphophallus paucisectus Amorphophallus pendulus : Brunei Amorphophalus Amorphophallus perakensis Amorphophallus pilosus Amorphophallus plicatus Amorphophallus polyanthus Amorphophallus prainii Amorphophallus preussii Amorphophallus purpurascens Amorphophallus pusillus Amorphophallus putii Amorphophallus pygmaeus Amorphophallus rhizomatosus Amorphophallus richardsiae Amorphophallus rostratus Amorphophallus rugosus Amorphophallus sagittarius Amorphophallus salmoneus Amorphophallus saraburiensis Amorphophallus saururus Amorphophallus scaber Amorphophallus scutatus Amorphophallus sizemorae Amorphophallus sizemorae Amorphophallus smithsonianus Amorphophallus sparsiflorus Amorphophallus spectabilis Amorphophallus staudtii Amorphophallus stipitatus Amorphophallus stuhlmannii Amorphophallus subsymbiformis Amorphophallus sumawongii Amorphophallus sylvaticus Amorphophallus symonianus Amorphophallus synandrifer Amorphophallus taurostigma Amorphophallus tenuispadix Amorphophallus tenuistylis Amorphophallus teuszii Amorphophallus tinekeae Amorphophallus titanum : Titan Arum, Krubi (big flower olympic games) Amorphophallus tonkinensis Amorphophallus variabilis Amorphophallus venustus Amorphophallus verticillatus Amorphophallus yuloensis Amorphophallus yunnanensis : Kerri's Giant Arum Amorphophallus zengianus Amorphophallus zenkeri Amorphophallus zenkeri subsp. mannii Amorphophallus zenkeri subsp. zenkeri

Reference
Hetterscheid, W.L.The. 1994. Preliminary taxonomy & morphology of Amorphophallus Blume passe Decaisne (Araceae). Around: M.M. Serebreyanyi (ed.), Proc. Moscow Araceous Conference 1992: 35-48. Moscow. Hetterscheid, W.L.The. & G.J.C.M. v. Vliet, 1996. Amorphophallus, elephantine from either a outdoors. CITES/C&M, 2(4): 86-96. Everything Smart shoppers Universally Wanted to Understand Just about Amorphophallus, however Were Afraid to Stick Your Nose Into!!!!! by Wilbert Hetterscheid & Stephen Ittenbach - Aroideana Xix :7-129 [http://www.aroid.org/genera/amorphophallus/amlist.html Amorphophallus species with photos]

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