Sapria himalayana Griff
Nomenclature
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Family: RafflesiaceaeGenus: Sapria
SUMMARY
Visible body globose. Inflorescence bracts 10, scale-like,fleshy, imbricate, broadly triangular to ± rounded, basalmost ones minute, apical ones larger and ovate. Perianth campanulate;tube outside white, inside purple, semiglobose, 68 cm,inner surface longitudinally 20-ribbed and pubescent; lobes 10,2-seriate, broadly triangular, 68 × 46 cm, imbricate, with rose-yellowish warts, exterior surface with many linear warts. Male flowers: anthers 2-loculed, broadly ellipsoid, dehiscent by apical pores; apical cupular body base convex; gynostegium blood red. Female flowers: cupular body base concave, with sterile stamens; gynostegium stouter than stamens. [1]
References
- , “A new form of the hermit's spittoon, Sapria himalayana Griffith f. albovinosa Banziger and Hansen f. nov.(Rafflesiaceae), with notes on its ecology”, Nat. Hist. Bull. Siam. Soc, vol. 48, pp. 213–219, 2000.