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Rhaphidophora korthalsii

Botanic Family

Araceae

Author

Schott

Common Names

• Shingle Plant

Geographical Habitats

• Borneo
• Brunei
• Caroline Islands
• Java
• Maluku
• Sulawesi
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Kelantan
• Pahang
• Penang
• Perak
• Selangor
• Teregganu - Malaysia
• Bismarck Archipelago - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Solomon Islands
• S. Thailand
• Vanuatu

Natural Habitats

• Swamp forest
• montane forest
• lowland primary & secondary forest
• lowland & hill forest

Flowering Times

• Summer

Fruiting Times

• May
• Jun-Jul (Philippines)

Very large to enormous robust root-climbing liana to 20m, glabrous leaves to more than 1m long. Seedling leaves overlapping like roof-shingles to 110mm x 60mm, adult leaves pinnatipartite, pinnatisect or pinnatifid to 940mm x 440mm. Terminal infructescence, solitary or several together with blackish-brown sheath at base, ripening to dull orange 270mm x 35mm, 150mm fleshy stoutly-beaked yellow spathe to 300mm x 50mm, greenish outside, dull green to dirty white spadix to 260mm long x 20mm across, drupe 7mm x 4mm

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• HKU
• NYBG
• The Plant List 2
• Elmer
• GBS
• Kew