1. Arisaema Mart. (Jack-in-the-pulpit)
(Huttleston, 1984)
Plants with corms. Leaves few, with long
petioles and 3B15 leaflets, uniformly green. Leaflets with main
veins parallel from midrib to margins, connected by marginal loops and a
complex network of fine veinlets throughout the leaf tissue. Spathes variously
shaped and colored. Spadices with flowers only in the basal 25B30 percent, sometimes
with all staminate or all pistillate flowers, the sterile tips variously
shaped. Fruits orangish red to scarlet, with 1B3 seeds, in dense
cylindric to subglobose clusters. About 150 species, North America, Asia, Africa.