TABLE 1. Morphological comparison of Amorphophallus bantae and closely related species.
A. bantae A. tenuistylis A. longituberosus A. albispathus A. tenuispadix
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Peduncle length 28–34 cm 64–88 cm 10–76 cm 20–40 cm 11–29 cm
Peduncle exterior light green with purple vertical stripes and small whitish mottles olive green with small grayish mottles gray or light pink with green or brown mottles and (often) dark vertical stripes uniformly pink or olivegreen grading up to pink light brown to pinkish with few to many dark elongate mottles
Spadix length 13–15 cm 24–48 cm 5.0–15.5 cm 8–13 cm 5.5–12.0 cm
Spadix-spathe ratio spadix as long or shorter than spathe spadix longer than spathe spadix as long or shorter than spathe spadix shorter than spathe spadix as long or shorter than spathe
Appendix size 5.5–6.5 cm long, as broad or narrower than staminate zone 16–30 cm long, as broad or narrower than staminate zone 2.5–8.0 cm long, as broad or broader than staminate zone, never narrower 2–8 cm long, much broader than staminate zone 1.5–4.0 cm long, much broader than staminate zone
Appendix color purplish-brown reddish-purple whitish-beige whitish-beige whitish-beige
Spathe length 14–16 cm 19–40 cm 5–20 cm 6–14 cm 5–13 cm
Spathe shape elliptic lanceolate elliptic to elongate triangular triangular-ovate elliptic to lanceolate
Spathe limb apex mucronate acute or acuminate acute acute or acuminate acute or acuminate
Spathe exterior uniformly dark green with purplish vertical stripes and small whitish ovoid mottles limb reddish-brown with small dark mottles; base grayish-green with small gray mottles uniformly light green or gray with or without large brownish-green mottles or vertical stripes uniformly greenishwhite or pinkish-white, occasionally grading to darker pink toward base greenish-gray or pinkish gray (rarely white) with or without large dark ovoid mottles
Spathe interior limb uniformly dark green; base reddishbrown with elongate warts. limb uniformly reddishbrown; base dark purple with long, (often branched) warts limb uniformly light green or gray; base as limb or reddish with small elongate warts as exterior or occasionally paler with small elongate warts as exterior or paler, base typically without mottles and loosely verrucose
Pistillate flower density congested sparse; ovaries 1–4 mm apart congested congested congested
Ovaries 2–3-locular 3-locular 3-locular 3–4-locular 1-locular
Stigma shape depressed; 2–3 lobed hemispheric; 2–3 lobed flattened; 3–4 lobed flattened; 3–4 lobed or bilabiate discoid; bilabiate
Stigma color dark yellow to pale brown bright yellow bright yellow white or yellow white or yellow
Style length Style color ca. 1 mm reddish-purple 3–4 mm reddish-purple 2–3 mm green ca. 1 mm green ca. 1 mm green