Steudnera

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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Steudnera (bears the name of Steudner, a German botanist). Araceae. About 5 or 6 perennial herbs of E. Asia, sometimes seen under glass in choice collections, requiring the treatment of other aroids. Plant with a mostly short ascending sheathed caudex, and ovate-oblong long-stalked peltate lvs.: spathe ovate-lanceolate, recurving above the middle and convolute at base, much surpassing the spadix: fls. imperfect, the female with a subglobose 1-loculed ovary and 2-5 short staminodia: fr. a many-seeded berry. S. colocasiaefolia Koch. St. short and fleshy: lvs. green above and paler beneath, the petioled often colored: spathe yellowish, purple or reddish inside; spadix whitish, erect, one-third as long as the spathe. S. discolor, Bull (S. colocasiaefolia var. discolor, Hort.), has purple-blotched lvs., and spathe yellow on both surfaces but reddish at base. These plants are warmhouse subjects, grown for the foliage and interesting habit, as well as for the infl. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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