Some important Araceae of Eastern Ghats

Some important Araceae of Eastern Ghats
These are herbs of different size, more rarely shrubby and usually scandent, very frequently tuberous or rhizomatous with annual shoots.
v  Pothos scandens L.
v  Rhaphidophora decursiva Schott.
v  Scindapsus officinalis Schott.
v  Lasia spinosa Thwaites.
v  Amorphophallus campanulatus Blume.
v  Arisaema toruosum Schott.
v  Typhonium trilobatum Schott.
v  Remusatia vivipara Schott.
v  Pistia stratiotes L.
v  Cryptocoryne retrospiralis Fisch.
v  Alocasia Montana Schott.
v  Alocasia macrorrhiza Schott.
v  Colocasia antiquorum Schott.

Sanjeet Kumar
Ravenshaw University, Cuttack

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