Bognera Mayo & Nicolson sec CATE Araceae, 2009 urn:lsid:cate-araceae.org:taxon:5caa970b-6bfb-1014-a918-dc439151c9e5
Mayo & Nicolson 1984. Taxon. 33: 690
Distinguishing Features
Evergreen herb with creeping rhizomatous stem; petiole weakly geniculate; leaf blade simple, entire, ovate; female zone of spadix entirely adnate to spathe, with flowers laxly arranged; male flower forming a truncate synandrium. Differs from Dieffenbachia in lacking aerial stem, reticulate higher order leaf venation, female flowers without staminodes.
