Asterostigma Fisch. & C.A.Mey. sec CATE Araceae, 2009
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Fisch. & C.A.Mey. 1845. Bull. Cl. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg. 3: 148

Distinguishing Features

Medium-sized, seasonally dormant, tuberous geophytes; leaf blade with reticulate fine venation and no submarginal collective veins; flowers unisexual, perigone absent; spadix fertile to apex; stigmas star-shaped. Differs from Croatiella and Incarum in its anatropous ovules and pinnatisect leaf blades which are essentially tripartite with the three divisions each once-pinnate. Differs from Incarum in flat or convex central surface of the synandrium.