Plant of the Araceae family

A new plant of the Spathiphyllum species is somewhat smaller in size than that of the `Mauna Loa` variety and has foliage with variegated leaf blades that have a basic chlorophyllous field containing streaks and blotches which in colors are lighter than those of the basic chlorophyllous field, and an inflorescence with a spathe that shortly after initial expansion is provided with variegated blades which have a basic achlorophyllous field that contains chlorophyllous streaks and blotches and merges distally in the spathe with a chlorophyllous tip area, spathe coloration changing as the spathe matures to provide variegated blades that have a basic chlorophyllous field which contains chlorophlyllous and nearly achlorophyllous streaks and blotches that are generally lighter in colors than those found in the basic chlorophyllous field of a mature spathe.

The invention relates to a new and distinct plant variety of the Araceae 
family and which has been named the Araceae Spathiphyllum `Carolynia` by 
the inventor. 
Certain plant varieties of the Araceae family are well known in the foliage 
plant market and among these is the `Mauna Loa` variety of the 
Spathiphyllum species of the family. This variety is sometimes called the 
`White anthurium` and is characterized among other things by foliage with 
leaf blades that have a solid green field and an inflorescence with a 
spathe which upon initial expansion has a basic white field in the blade 
area that sometimes merges distally in the spathe with a small amount of 
green coloration at the tip of the spathe. 
The variety forming the subject matter of this application was developed 
from a sport or bud variation that appeared on a specimen of the `Mauna 
Loa` variety and a general objective of the invention has been to provide 
a variety of the Spathiphyllum species which would be distinguishable from 
the other known varieties of this species and suitable for sale in the 
foliage plant marketplace. 
Through successive propagations, it has been ascertained that specimens of 
the new plant variety generally resemble the specimens of the parent 
variety but are distinguishable from the parent variety and other related 
varieties known to the inventor by a growth habit which combines the 
following principal characteristics: 
1. A plant specimen which in size is generally smaller than those of the 
`Mauna Loa` variety of the Spathiphyllum species, 
2. Foliage that includes leaf blades which are variegated and provided with 
a basic chlorophyllous field that contains streaks and blotches which in 
colors are generally lighter than those of the basic chlorophyllous field 
and which also vary in color, pattern and size within the leaf blades and 
from one leaf blade to the next, and 
3. An inflorescence with a spathe that shortly after initial expansion is 
provided with variegated blades which have a basic achlorophyllous field 
that contains chlorophyllous streaks and blotches and merges distally in 
the spathe with a chlorophyllous tip area which extends proximally in the 
leaf blade further than that of the `Mauna Loa` variety of the 
Spathiphyllum species, the spathe coloration changing as the spathe 
matures to provide variegated blades that have a basic chlorophyllous 
field which contains chlorophyllous and nearly achlorophyllous streaks and 
blotches that are generally lighter in colors than those found in the 
basic chlorophyllous field.

The following is a detailed description of the new plant variety with 
colors and hues, unless otherwise clearly indicated by the text through 
the absence of color notations, being named in accord with the ISCC-NBS 
Method of Designating Colors, (U.S. Department of Commerce, National 
Bureau of Standards, Circular 553, Nov. 1, 1955) the named colors being 
interpreted from Munsell Color Notations determined from numeric color 
designations derived by comparison with the color specimens in the Munsell 
Limit Color Cascade that is currently published by the Munsell Color 
Company, Inc., of Baltimore, Md. The description is further based on the 
observation of plant specimens which range from four to eight months in 
age from initial propagation of offshoots that were grown to mature 
specimens in Fort Lawn, SC. 
DETAILED PLANT DESCRIPTION 
Name: Araceae Spathiphyllum (cv) `Carolynia`. 
Origin: Sport or bud variation that appeared on a plant specimen of the 
variety known as Spathiphyllum `Mauna Loa`. 
Classification: 
A. Botanic.--Spathiphyllum (Euspathiphyllum) hybrida incertae sedis Arum 
family (Araceae). 
B. Commercial.--Foliage plant. 
Plant form: Herbaceous, tropical, perennial evergreen with frequent 
adventitious roots, an ascending compact primary axis with frequent 
tillering at the base and erectopatent leaves that are surmounted by a 
spathoid inflorescence. 
Plant size: 
A. Leaf spread.--40-60 cm. in overall diameter at time of first flowering 
after propagation. 
B. Mature foliage height.--20-35 cm. at time of first flowering after 
propagation. 
C. Inflorescence length.--40-60 cm. at time of first flowering after 
propagation. 
Roots: Adventitious roots that are freely formed from cuttings and with the 
mature plants usually having a non-aerial fibrous root system. 
Stems: Rhizomatous with ascending tendencies. 
Leaves: 
A. General.--Simple, with a basal petiole sheath and a swollen geniculum 
that is located below and proximate to the lamina or blade. 
B. Arrangement.--Alternate, and commonly with 2/5 phyllotaxy. 
C. Margins.--Entire with undulate tendencies. 
D. Venation.--1. General: Pinnate with a prominent midrib, secondary veins 
that are embedded at the adaxial side and prominent at the abaxial side of 
the leaf blade, and tertiary veins that are parallel to the secondary 
veins and usually embedded at both the adaxial and abaxial sides of the 
leaf blade, the secondary and tertiary veins being joined by cross veins 
that provide a scalariform arrangement with some irregularly reticulated 
tendencies. 2. Shape and Arrangement: (a) Midrib -- Tapering distally and 
being canaliculate at the adaxial side and prominently keeled at the 
abaxial side of the leaf blade throughout most of its length dimension, 
the abaxial arch usually being semicircular and the adaxial groove usually 
being narrowly semi-elliptic to elliptic so that the arrangement provides 
a distally extending concavo-convex cross section at the proximal end of 
the midrib. (b) Lateral veins -- Usually 9-13 secondary veins from each 
side of the midrib and located at intervals along the midrib which are 
usually 7-14 mm., the tertiary veins being usually spaced apart at 1-3 mm. 
intervals. 3. Midrib colors: (a) General -- Usually concolorous or nearly 
concolorous on the adaxial side with the basic chlorophyllous field found 
in the leaf blades, and usually concolorous along the abaxial keel of the 
midrib with the abaxial surface of the geniculum. (b) Adaxial side -- 
Commonly moderate olive green (21-14, 22-13, 22-14), dark olive green 
(20-15), dark yellow green (20-14, 18-14, 19-14), very dark yellowish 
green (18-15, 19-15), deep yellow green (21-12), strong yellow green 
(22-10, 22-11, 22-12), vivid yellow green (22-10), and/or deep yellowish 
green (20-12, 18-13, 19-13, 20-11). (c) Abaxial side -- Commonly vivid 
yellow green (21-6, 22-5, 22-6, 23-5, 23-6, 23-9), brilliant yellowish 
green (20-3), brilliant yellow green (20-4, 20-5, 21-4, 21-5, 21-3, 23-3, 
23-4, 22-3, 22-4), and/or strong yellow green (23-10, 23-11). 
E. Shape.--1. General: Elliptic to lanceolate with occasional ovate 
tendencies. 2. Leaf apices: Attenuated acuminate with a weakly 
canaliculate to subtubulose tip. 3. Leaf bases: Symmetric and obtuse with 
oblique tendencies, and usually being decurrent well into the geniculum. 
F. Petioles.--1. General: Provided with a fleshy basal sheath that extends 
for approximately two-thirds of the petiole length, and with a geniculum 
that merges into the midvein. 2. Shape: Generally elongated with the 
sheath surrounding the next emerging leaf during vernation and thereafter 
becoming free above the node as the leaf spreads and the sheath rolls in 
upon itself, the sheath becoming supervolute at its proximal end and being 
decurrent and somewhat conduplicate distally thereof to the terete, 
nonsheathing portion of the petiole, the nonsheathing portion abruptly 
increasing in diameter distally of the sheath to form an elongated terete 
geniculum which merges imperceptibly with the midvein at the abaxial side 
of the leaf and to which the blade is attached at the adaxial side of the 
leaf by two elongated adaxial decurrent blade extensions. 3. Texture: 
Glabrous and smooth. 4. Size (4-7 month old specimens): (a) Diameter -- 
Usually about 3-4 mm. intermediate the sheath end of the geniculum. (b) 
Length (insertion to leaf blade) -- Usually 10-19 cm. with the sheath 
length being about 6-14 cm. and the geniculum length being about 2-4 cm. 
5. Color: (a) General -- Usually concolorous or nearly concolorous with a 
basic chlorophyllous field on the adaxial side of the blade in the area 
proximate the geniculum and with a visibly lighter color for the 
geniculum. (b) Area proximate to geniculum -- Commonly deep yellowish 
green (18-13, 19-13, 20-13), dark yellowish green (18-14, 19-14, 20-14), 
very dark yellowish green (18-15, 19-15), moderate olive green (21-14, 
22-13), and/or dark olive green (20-15). (c) Geniculum -- Commonly vivid 
yellowish green (18-6, 18-7, 18-8, 19-5, 19-6, 19-7, 19-8, 20-7, 20-8, 
20-9), brilliant yellowish green (19-5, 20-3, 20-4), brilliant yellow 
green (20-4, 20-5, 21-4, 21-5, 22-3, 22-4), vivid yellow green (20-6, 
21-6, 21-7, 21-8, 21-9, 21-10, 22-10, 23-7, 23-8, 23-9, 23-10), strong 
yellow green (21-11, 22-10, 22-11, 22-12), and/or deep yellow green 
(21-12, 22-12). 
G. Leaf blade.--1. General: Variegated and chartaceous laterally of midrib 
and between the secondary veins. 2. Texture and shape: (a) Upper epidermis 
-- Glabrous with scattered, nearly microscopic hyaline waxy excrescences 
and somewhat sulcate along the secondary veins. (b) Lower epidermis -- 
Glabrous and weakly glaucous, the surface being ridged along the midvein 
and secondary veins and generally planar in the tertiary vein areas. 3. 
Size (4-7 month specimens): (a) Length -- Usually about 15-25 cm. between 
proximal and distal ends. (b) Width -- Usually about 6-8 cm. across the 
broadest expanse. 4. Color: (a) General -- Variegated with basic 
chlorophyllous field containing streaks and blotches that vary from 
achlorophyllous to chlorophyllous and with colors that are somewhat 
lighter than those of the basic chlorophyllous field, the blotches and 
streaks usually following the secondary veins, and varying in color, 
pattern and size within any leaf and from one leaf to the next, the colors 
and patterns being somewhat obscured at the abaxial side of the blade by 
the translucent and glaucous nature of the lower epidermis. (b) Basic 
chlorophyllous field -- Commonly deep yellowish green (18-13, 19-13, 
20-13), dark yellowish green (18-14, 19-14, 20-14), very dark yellowish 
green (18-15, 19-15), dark olive green (20-15), deep yellow green (21-12, 
21-13, 22-12), moderate olive green (21-14, 22-13), strong yellow green 
(22-10, 22-11, 22-12), and/or vivid yellow green (22-10). (c) Streaks and 
splotches -- Commonly vivid yellowish green (19-6, 19-7, 19-8, 19-9, 20-7, 
20-8, 20-9), light yellow green (20-2, 21-2, 23-2), very light yellowish 
green (20-2), brilliant yellowish green (20-3, 20-4), brilliant yellow 
green (20-4, 20-5, 21 -3, 21-4, 21-5, 22-3, 22-4, 23-3, 23-4), vivid 
yellow green (20-6, 21-6, 21-7, 21-8, 21-9, 21-10, 22-5, 22-6, 22-7, 22-8, 
22-9, 22-10, 23-5), strong yellow green (21-11, 22-10, 22-11, 22-12), 
and/or deep yellow green (21-12, 21-13, 22-12). 
Inflorescence form: Axillary, peduncle bearing spathe with a stiped spadix 
the lower portion of the peduncle being enclosed within the petiolar 
sheath of the leaf and the peduncle emerging below the distal end of the 
sheath. 
Peduncle: 
A. General.--Erect, rigid and succulent. 
B. Texture.--Smooth to faintly striate (under 10x magnification) and 
glabrous. 
C. Shape.--Terete and weakly tapered upwardly. 
D. Size.--1. Length: Usually 35-45 cm. 2. Diameter: Usually 2.5-4 mm. in 
the area proximate to the spathe and 3.5-5 mm. at the emergence from the 
petiolar sheath of the subtending leaf. 
E. Color.--Commonly strong yellow green (21-11, 22-12, 22-10), deep yellow 
green (22-12), moderate yellow green (Centroid Chip No. 120), and/or vivid 
yellow green (22-10). 
Pedicels: None. 
Spathe: 
A. Pinnately veined with prominent midvein.--Chartaceous between secondary 
veins, and tightly in-rolled upon the spadix prior to expansion, the 
expanded spathe being concave and subtending the spadix supporting stipe. 
B. Texture.--Smooth with secondary veins that are embedded at the adaxial 
side and prominent at the abaxial side, and with poculous indentations and 
rises attributable to the tight roll upon the spadix being visible on the 
adaxial and abaxial sides after expansion. 
C. Shape.--1. General: Ovate to elliptic with a facial depression upon 
expansion and a tendency to be asymmetric. 2. Apices: Attentuated 
acuminate and frequently with a partial to a full twist, the tip being 
canaliculate and commonly terminating in a small evanescent vestige that 
is usually dead. 3. Bases: Asymmetric, decurrent and oblique. 
D. Size.--1. Length: Usually 10-15 cm. long. 2. Width: Usually 5-7 cm. 
across the widest portion when flattened. 3. Depression depth: Usually 2-3 
cm. (maximum). 
E. Color.-- 1. General: Variegated with a basic achlorophyllous field 
containing random splotches and streaks shortly after initial expansion, 
the basic field merging distally in the spathe with a chlorophyllous tip 
area that extends proximally in the leaf blade further than commonly found 
in the `Mauna Loa` variety of the Spathiphyllum species, the spathe 
coloration changing as the spathe matures to provide variegated blades 
that have a basic chlorophyllous field which contains chlorophyllous and 
nearly achlorophyllous streaks and blotches that are generally lighter in 
color than those found in the basic chlorophyllous field. 2. Immature 
spathe (shortly after initial expansion): (a) Midvein and blade tip areas 
-- Commonly vivid yellowish green (17-9, 17-10, 18-8, 18-9, 18-10, 18-11, 
19-7, 19-8, 19-9, 19-10, 19-11, 20-7, 20-8, 20-9, 20-10), deep yellowish 
green (17-11, 18-11, 19-12, 19-13, 20-11, 20-12, 20-13), vivid yellow 
green (21-9, 21-12, 22-10, 23-10), strong yellow green (21-11, 22-10, 
22-11, and/or deep yellow green (21-12, 21-13). (b) Basic achlorophyllous 
field -- Commonly very pale green (18-1, 19-1, 20-1), very light yellowish 
green (18- 2, 19-2, 20-2), pale yellow green (21-1, 22-1, 23-1, 24-1), 
and/or light yellow green (21-2, 22-2, 23-2, 24-2). (c) Chlorophyllous 
streaks and blotches -- Commonly vivid yellowish green (18-6, 18-7, 18-8, 
19-6, 19-7, 19-8, 19-9, 19-10, 19-11, 20-7, 20-8, 20-9, 20-10), brilliant 
yellowish green (19-5), deep yellowish green (19-12, 19-3, 20-11, 20-12, 
20-13), brilliant yellow green (20-5, 21-4, 21-5, 22-3, 22-4), vivid 
yellow green (20-6, 21-6, 21-7, 21-8, 21-9, 21-10, 22-5, 22-6, 22-7, 22-8, 
22-9), and/or strong yellow green (21-11). 3. Mature spathe: (a) Basic 
chlorophyllous field (including blade tip areas) -- Commonly vivid 
yellowish green (20-10), deep yellowish green (20-11, 20-12, 20-13), vivid 
yellow green (21-10, 22-10), strong yellow green (21-11, 22-10, 22-11, 
22-12), deep yellow green (21-12, 21-13, 22-12), and/or moderate olive 
green (21-14, 22-13). (b) Achlorophyllous and chlorophyllous streaks or 
blotches -- Commonly very pale green (19-1), very light yellowish green 
(19-2, 20-2), brilliant yellowish green (19-3, 19-4, 19-5, 20-3), vivid 
yellowish green (19-5, 19-6, 20-7, 20-8), pale yellow green (20-1, 21-1, 
22-1, 23-1), brilliant yellow green (20-4, 20-5, 21-3, 21-4, 21-5, 22-3, 
22-4, 23-3, 23-4), vivid yellow green (20-6, 21-6, 21-7, 21-8, 22-5, 22-6, 
22-7, 23-5, 23-6), and/or light yellow green (21-2, 22-2, 23-2). 
Stipe: 
A. General.--Cylindrical, succulent, rigid and emerging from the midvein of 
the spathe at an acute angle to merge thereabove with the spadix. 
B. Texture.--Smooth and glabrous. 
C. Shape.--Terete. 
D. Size.--1. Length: Usually 2-12 mm. 2. Diameter: Usually 2-5 mm. 
E. Color.--Commonly strong yellow green (22-11, 22-12), and/or deep yellow 
green (22-12, 21-12). 
Spadix: 
A. General.--Ascendingly attached to the stipe and provided with a 
plurality of individual flowers that mostly project radially of the spadix 
axis. 
B. Shape.--Generally cylindrical. 
C. Size.--1. Diameter: Usually 10-16 mm. 2. Length: Usually 3-7 cm. 
D. Color.--Commonly pale yellow green (24-1, 25-1) and/or pale greenish 
yellow (25-2) upon initial exposure and changing to pale yellowish green 
(26-1), pale greenish yellow (26-2) and/or pale yellow (27-1, 27-2) at the 
time of pollen presentation. This is followed by a gradual darkening and 
increase in saturation to strong yellow green (22-10) and/or vivid yellow 
green (21-9, 21-10, 22-10, 23-10) before withering and drying up. 
E. Flowers.--1. General: Complete and perfect with the individual flowers 
being born distally of the stipe and in a contiguous helical arrangement 
about the axis of the spadix, the gynoecium having a dominating conical 
style that surmounts the surrounding and appressed androecium and perianth 
of the individual flowers. 2. Perianth: (a) General -- With an 
actinomorphic calyx and corolla respectively composed of outer and inner 
tepals. (b) Calyx -- (1) General: Composed of three clawed tepals. (2) 
Texture: Fleshy and glabrous. (3) Shape: Usually reniform above the claw 
and concave on adaxial side. (4) Size: Length usually about 1.5 mm. above 
the claw and about 3 mm. wide at the widest point above the claw, the claw 
being usually about 0.5 mm. long and varying in width above the insertion 
from about 1-1.5 mm. (5) Color: Commonly pale yellow green (26-1), pale 
greenish yellow (26-2), and/or pale yellow (27-1) at time of first 
exposure of spadix. (c) Corolla -- (1) General: Composed of three tepals. 
(2) Texture: Fleshy and glabrous. (3) Shape: Broadly elliptical to 
orbicular with a concave adaxial surface. (4) Size: a. Length -- Commonly 
1-2 mm. b. Width -- Commonly 1-2 mm. (5) Color: Commonly pale yellow green 
(22-1, 23-1, 24-1, 25-1), pale greenish yellow (25-2, 26-2), and/or pale 
yellow (27-1) at time of first exposure of spadix. 3. Androecium: (a) 
General -- Usually six stamens with a broad filament and bilocular anthers 
that are retained within the concavity of a tepal until presentation and 
subsequent dehiscence, the stamens usually maturing sequentially in pairs 
that are respectively located at opposite sides of the geniculum and 
remain exserted following dehiscence. (b) Filaments -- (1) Texture: Fleshy 
and glabrous during presentation. (2) Shape and Size: a. General -- 
Elongated and flattened and lengthening during presentation. b. Length -- 
Usually about 0.5-1.5 mm. in length prior to presentation and usually 
about 1.5-3 mm. after presentation and elongation. c. Width -- Usually 
about 0.7-1.5 mm. before and after presentation. (3) Color: Commonly pale 
yellow green (26-1) and/or pale yellow (27-1) at time of first exposure of 
spadix. (c) Anthers -- (1) General: Bilocular and born on a slender 
connective. (2) Texture: Fleshy and glabrous. (3) Shape: Oblong-ovoid 
pollen sacs. (4) Size: Pollen sacs are usually about 1-1.6 mm. long and 
about 0.3-0.4 mm. wide prior to dehiscence. (5) Color: Commonly pale 
yellow green (25-1) during pollen presentation and with pollen being 
commonly pale yellow green (25-1, 24-1). 4. Gynoecium: (a) General -- 
Compound, ovoid to obclavoid, and glabrous pistils usually composed of 
three carpels subtended by the androecium and perianth. (b) Stigma -- A 
triradiate groove at the summit of the pistil and barely visible to the 
unaided eye. (c) Style -- (1) General: A conical extension from the ovary 
that protrudes beyond the surrounding proximate perianth parts of the 
spadix. (2) Texture: Fleshy and glabrous. (3) Shape: Conical. (4) Size: 
Usually 1-3 mm. for the exposed length after first exposure of the spadix. 
(5) Color: Commonly pale yellow green (25-1) and/or pale yellowish green 
(25-2) upon first exposure of the spadix and tending toward pale yellow 
(27-2) at the time of pollen presentation. (d) Ovary -- (1) General -- 
Superior, sulcate by virtue of concavities for anthers, and usually three 
carpellate with axile-basal placentation, and usually 2-4 oblong-ovoid 
ovules per carpel. (2) Texture -- Fleshy and glabrous. (3) Shape -- 
Generally pyriform and merging into the base of the style. (4) Size -- 
Usually 2-3 mm. long from the insertion to the plane of the style exposure 
and 3-4 mm. diameter (maximum). (5) Color -- Commonly light yellow green 
(24-2) and/or brilliant yellow green (24-3) prior to pollen presentation 
and usually being pale yellow green (21-1) during ovary maturation. 
The following is a general description of a specimen of the new plant 
variety which was grown in a nursery at Fort Lawn, S.C. from a propagated 
stem cutting and wherein the description was taken in the month of 
November. 
Age of specimen: 6 months from initial propagation. 
Height of plant (mature leaves): 26 cm. 
Diameter of plant (leaf spread): 42 cm. 
Number of basal tillers: 5. 
Number of expanded leaves on main axis: 11. 
Number of leaves in vernation on main axis: 1. 
Stems: 
A. Main axis.--1. General: Surrounded by leaf bases. 2. Height: Rises 
approximately 3 cm. above the uppermost adventitious root. 3. Diameter: 
About 3 cm. (including leaf bases) at the root line. 
B. Tillers.--1. General: Surrounded by leaf bases. 2. Diameter: 4 tillers 
with diameters (including leaf bases) of about 0.5 cm. and 1 tiller with a 
diameter (including leaf bases) of about 1 cm. 
Leaves: 
A. Petioles.--1. Diameter (intermediate sheath and geniculum): Ranges from 
about 2-3 mm. for immature leaves to 3-4 mm. for mature leaves. 2. Length: 
11-18 cm. in overall length for the leaf petioles on the main axis, 7-13 
cm. for the lengths of the petiole sheaths on the main axis and 2-14 cm. 
in length for the petiole genicula on the main axis. 3. Color (main axis 
petioles): (a) Area proximate to geniculum -- Dark yellowish green 
(19-14), moderate olive green (21-14). (b) Geniculum -- Deep yellow green 
(21-12, 22-12), strong yellow green (21-11, 22-11). 
B. Midrib colors.--1. Adaxial side: Moderate olive green (22-13), dark 
olive green (20-15). 2. Abaxial side: Deep yellow green (21-12), strong 
yellow green (21-11). 
C. Blades.--1. Length: 16-23 cm. between proximal and distal ends. 2. Width 
(maximums): 6-8 cm. 3. Color: (a) Basic chlorophyllous field -- Moderate 
olive green (22-13), dark olive green (20-15), dark yellow green (21-13), 
dark yellowish green (20-14), and/or deep yellow green (22-12). (b) 
Streaks and splotches -- Brilliant yellow green (22-3, 22-4), vivid yellow 
green (21-6, 22-8), strong yellow green (22-10, 22-12), light yellow green 
(23-2), and/or vivid yellow green (20-8, 19-9). 
Inflorescence: 
A. Peduncle.-- 1. Size: (a) Length -- 38 cm. (b) Diameter -- About 5 mm. at 
emergence from sheath and about 4 mm. near spathe. 2. Color: Strong yellow 
green (21-11). 
B. Spathe.--1. Size: (a) Length -- 14 cm. (b) Width -- 6.5 cm. (max.) when 
flattened. (c) Depression depth -- 2.5 cm. 2. Color: (a) During immaturity 
-- (1) Midvein and blade tip area: Strong yellow green (21-11), vivid 
yellow green (21-9). (2) Basic achlorophyllous field: Very pale green 
(20-1), pale yellow green (21-1). (3) Chlorophyllous streaks and blotches: 
Vivid yellow green (19-6, 19-7), brilliant yellowish green (19-5), 
brilliant yellow green (20-5). (b) Mature spathe -- (1) Basic 
chlorophyllous field: Deep yellowish green (21-12, 22-12), strong yellow 
green (22-12). (2) Achlorophyllous and chlorophyllous streaks and 
blotches: Pale yellow green (20-1), brilliant yellow green (21-3), vivid 
yellow green (21-7). 
C. Stipe.-- 1. Size: (a) Diameter -- About 4 mm. (b) Length -- About 5 mm. 
2. Color: Strong yellow green (21-11). 
D. Spadix.--1. Size: (a) Diameter -- About 15 mm. (b) Length -- About 6 cm. 
2. Color: Pale yellow green (25-1) at time of spathe expansion, pale 
yellowish green (27-1) at time of pollen presentation, and ultimately 
vivid yellow green (21-9) before withering. 
E. Flowers.--1. Perianth: (a) Calyx -- (1) Size: a- Length -- About 1.5 mm. 
above the claw and with the claw length of about 0.5 mm. b- Width -- About 
3 mm. at widest point above the claw and with the claw width being 1-1.5 
mm. (2) Color: Pale yellow green (26-1) at time of first exposure. (b) 
Corolla -- (1) Size: a- Length -- 1-2 mm. b- Width -- 1-2 mm. (2) Color: 
Pale yellowish green (26-2) at time of first exposure. 2. Androecium: (a) 
Filaments -- (1) Size: a- Length -- About 0.5-1.5 mm. before lengthening 
to about 1.5-3 mm. after presentation. b- Width -- About 0.7-1.5 mm. (2) 
Color: Pale yellow green (26-1). (b) Anthers -- (1) Size (before 
dehiscence): a- Length -- About 1-1.5 mm. b- Width -- About 0.3-0.4 mm. 
(c) Color: Pale yellow green (25-1). 3. Gynoecium: (a) Style -- (1) Size: 
About 1-3 mm. exposed after spathe expansion. (2) Color: Pale yellowish 
green (25-2) at time of first exposure of spadix. (b) Ovary -- (1) Size: 
a- Length -- About 2.5 mm. from insertion to plane of exposed part of 
style. b- Width (max.) -- About 3.5 mm. (2) Color: Brilliant yellow green 
(24-3).