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Family: Araceae
Zantedeschia aethiopica

Citation: Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 3:765 (1826).

Synonymy: -Calla aethiopica L., Sp. Pl. 968 (1753); Richardia africana Kunth, Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 4:433 (1818).

Common name: Arum lily, white arum lily.

Description:
Erect glabrous perennial, with a thick rhizomatous rootstock; leaves large, petiolate, radical, dark-green, ovate-cordate, pointed, the lamina often to 50 cm long.

Spathe large, white, funnel-shaped, slit to the base, spreading in the upper part, pointed and recurved at the summit; spadix bright-yellow, on a stout radical pealuncle; stamens covering the upper part, the numerous female flowers clustered round the much shorter lower part of the spadix and surrounded by barren stamens.

Fruit a berry, 1-5-celled.

Distribution:  Introduced as a garden ornamental but becoming established especially in damp situations.

S.Aust.: EP, MU, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic .   Native to South Africa.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: throughout the year especially spring and early summer.


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