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Araceae

156 species · Plants

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Alocasia brisbanensis (F.M.Bailey) Domin

Alocasia brisbanensis is a large-leaved rainforest plant grown as a house and garden ornamental.

Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don

Alocasia macrorrhizos is an edible aroid native to rainforests of Maritime Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and the Torres Strait Murray Islands.

Alocasia odora (G.Lodd.) Spach

Alocasia odora is an aroid plant with edible parts that require proper cooking to avoid toxicity, used in Southeast Asian cuisine.

Ambrosina bassii L.

Ambrosina bassii is a small aroid species with low seed production that is host to an aroid-specific fungal leaf pathogen.

Amorphophallus hirtus N.E.Br.

Amorphophallus hirtus N.E.Br. has a whitish tuber that turns grayish - brown, a single leaf with a spotted petiole, a solitary inflorescence, and a spadix emitting a strong smell, with distinct male, female, and appendix structures.

Amorphophallus kiusianus (Makino) Makino

Amorphophallus kiusianus has a depressed globose tuber, a solitary leaf with a spotted petiole, a solitary long - pedunculate inflorescence, a spathe with various colors and markings, a spadix of different lengths, and its berries change color from green to blue and are 2 - seeded.

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (Dennst.) Nicolson

Amorphophallus paeoniifolius is a large tuberous edible herb widely used as food and traditional medicine across South Asia.

Anthurium scandens (Aubl.) Engl.

Anthurium scandens is a widely distributed climbing epiphytic Anthurium species from the Americas and Caribbean, sometimes used in folk medicine.

Anthurium schlechtendalii Kunth

Anthurium schlechtendalii Kunth is a large herbaceous plant species from the Anthurium genus native to parts of Central and South America.

Arisaema acuminatum Small

Arisaema acuminatum, Florida Jack-in-the-pulpit, is a corm-grown perennial herb mostly native to Florida and surrounding coastal areas.

Arisaema amurense Maxim.

Arisaema amurense is a variable aroid perennial native to Northeast Asia, whose wild-collected tubers are used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Arisaema consanguineum Schott

Arisaema consanguineum is a tuberous perennial flowering plant native to Asia, grown as an ornamental.

Arisaema dracontium (L.) Schott

Arisaema dracontium, dragon-root or green dragon, is a vulnerable North American herbaceous perennial aroid plant.

Arisaema heterophyllum Blume

Arisaema heterophyllum Blume is an East Asian plant species, many of its genus used medicinally in Chinese medicine.

Arisaema pusillum (Peck) Nash

Arisaema pusillum is a small perennial flowering corm plant from the eastern US, part of the Arisaema triphyllum complex with three leaflets per leaf.

Arisaema quinatum (Nutt.) Schott

Arisaema quinatum is a corm-grown perennial herb endemic to the southeastern US, often called Prester John in the Florida Panhandle.

Arisaema ringens (Thunb.) Schott

Arisaema ringens, the Japanese cobra lily, is an East Asian dioecious tuberous flowering plant in the Araceae family.

Arisaema serratum (Thunb.) Schott

Arisaema serratum is a toxic perennial flowering arum native to Japan’s northern and central regions.

Arisaema stewardsonii Britton

Arisaema stewardsonii is a distinct perennial herb in the Arisaema triphyllum complex, native to northeastern North America.

Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott

Arisaema triphyllum, or Jack-in-the-pulpit, is a sex-changing herbaceous perennial native to eastern North American forests.

Arisarum simorrhinum Durieu

Arisarum simorrhinum is a perennial aroid native to the western Mediterranean, found from sea level to 840 m altitude.

Arisarum vulgare O.Targ.Tozz.

Arisarum vulgare is a small Mediterranean geophyte with characteristic hooded spathe flowers and green berry fruits.

Arum cylindraceum Gasp.

Arum cylindraceum Gasp. is an early-spring poisonous arum species, often confused with Arum maculatum, with historical starch use.

Arum italicum Mill.

Arum italicum Mill. is a poisonous ornamental aroid with variable subspecies native across Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

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Alismataceae 33 species Potamogetonaceae 30 species Hydrocharitaceae 21 species Juncaginaceae 6 species Tofieldiaceae 6 species Zosteraceae 6 species Cymodoceaceae 4 species Posidoniaceae 2 species

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