Caladium Vent. sec CATE Araceae, 2009 urn:lsid:cate-araceae.org:taxon:5caaacd7-6bfb-1014-a918-dc439151c9e5
Vent. 1801. Arch. Bot. (Leipzig). 2: 347
Distinguishing Features
Tuberous geophytes; leaves usually peltate, blade often variegated, cordate-sagittate, sagittate or rarely trisect, fine venation reticulate, inframarginal collective vein present; spathe strongly constricted, blade withering immediately after anthesis, tube persistent; spadix fertile to apex; flowers unisexual, perigone absent; male flowers forming a truncate synandrium, pollen shed in monads. Differs from Scaphispatha in spathe tube always convolute at anthesis, well developed sterile flowers between male and female zones, stylar region as broad as ovary (Caladium paradoxum has discoid, coherent stylar regions), placentas 1-2 (-3), parietal to subbasal.
Distribution
C. & S. Trop. America.
