Staurostigma
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Read about Staurostigma in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Staurostigma (Greek, cross and stigma, in allusion to the cross or star-shaped stigmas). Araceae. Tuberous stoloniferous herbs, adapted to the warmhouse: lvs. long-petioled, hastate-cordate in outline, pinnately cut or 1-2-pinnately parted, the pinnae sessile, acute: peduncles solitary or several, as long as the lvs.; spathe erect, lanceolate, base convolute, gaping or open above; spadix cylindrical: fls. monoecious, all perfect, the male and female contiguous; perianth wanting: berries subglobose, deeply 2-5-sulcate, 2-5-celled, the cells 1-seeded.—About 7 species, Trop. Amer. The oldest name for this genus is Asterostigma. S. concinnum, Koch. About 1 1/2 ft. high: young lvs. reniform, pedately cut, the segms. obovate-lanceolate, the older 3-parted, the middle part pinnately cut, elongated-oblong, the lateral parts cymosely bisected or trisected; the petioles marked with pale violet and dark purple: spathe narrow-lanceolate, very acute; spadix white and purple, the male part dense-fld.; peduncle livid purple, shorter than the petioles. Brazil. L.B.C. 16:1590 (as Caladium luridum). Variable. S. Luschnathianum, Koch (Asterostigma Luschnathianum, Schott). Lvs. 1-2 ft. long, deep green, pinnatifid, broadly ovate, the 2 lower segms. deflexed, deeply cut into 3-5 lobes, the remaining segms. 4-6 pairs, sessile, remote; the petioles 6-12 in. long, whitish with black-purple streaks: spathe deep green within and speckled with brown, reticulated externally, 2-4 in. long, erect, cylindric, acute; spadix cylindric; anthers scarlet; ovaries white; scape similar to the petiole. Brazil. B.M. 5972. S. Riedelianum, Engl. About 2 ft. high: lvs., the adults, 3-parted, the middle one pinnately cut, the segms. linear-oblong, sessile, abruptly and rather long-cuspidate at the apex; the lower parts short-decurrent: peduncles spotted and variegated: spathe yellowish, greenish outside; spadix slender; peduncles many, variegated. Brazil. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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