page_title: Aroideae
section_title: Genera
hierarchical_section_title: Aroideae / Genera
caption_attribution_description: Golden Club (Orontium aquaticum) at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens.
context_page_description: Aroideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It is the largest subfamily in Araceae and consists of about 72 different genera, and 2,300 species. Many Aroideae have spiny pollen grains without a sporopollenin outer exine layer and lacking an aperture.
context_section_description: Aglaodorum Schott
  Aglaonema Schott
  Alocasia (Schott) G. Don
  Amorphophallus Blume ex Decne.
  Ambrosina Bassi
  Anchomanes Schott
  Anubias Schott
  Apoballis Schott
  Aridarum Ridl.
  Ariopsis Nimmo
  Arisaema Mart.
  Arisarum Mill.
  Arophyton Jum.
  Arum L.
  Asterostigma Fisch. & C. A. Mey.
  Bakoa P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong
  Biarum Schott
  Bognera Mayo & Nicolson
  Bucephalandra Schott
  Caladium Vent.
  Calla L.
  Callopsis Engl.
  Carlephyton Jum.
  Cercestis Schott
  Chlorospatha Engl.
  Colletogyne Buchet
  Colocasia Schott
  Cryptocoryne Fisch. ex Wydler
  Culcasia P. Beauv.
  Dieffenbachia Schott
  Dracunculus Mill.
  Eminium (Blume) Schott
  Fenestratarum P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong
  Filarum Nicolson
  Furtadoa M. Hotta
  Gearum N. E. Br.
  Gorgonidium Schott
  Hapaline Schott
  Helicodiceros Schott
  Heteroaridarum M. Hotta
  Hestia P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong
  Homalomena Schott
  Hottarum Bogner & Nicolson
  Incarum E.G.Gonç
  Jasarum G. S. Bunting
  Lagenandra Dalzell
  Mangonia Schott
  Montrichardia Crueg.
  Nephthytis Schott
  Ooia P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong
  Peltandra Raf.
  Philodendron Schott
  Philonotion Schott
  Phymatarum M. Hotta
  Pinellia Ten.
  Piptospatha N. E. Br.
  Pistia L.
  Protarum Engl.
  Pseudodracontium N. E. Br.
  Pseudohydrosme Engl.
  Remusatia Schott
  Sauromatum Schott
  Scaphispatha Brongn. ex Schott
  Schismatoglottis Zoll. & Moritzi
  Schottarum P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong
  Spathantheum Schott
  Spathicarpa Hook.
  Steudnera K. Koch
  Stylochaeton Lepr.
  Synandrospadix Engl.
  Syngonium Schott
  Taccarum Brongn. ex Schott
  Theriophonum Blume
  Typhonium Schott
  Typhonodorum Schott
  Ulearum Engl.
  Xanthosoma Schott
  Zantedeschia Spreng.
  Zomicarpa Schott
  Zomicarpella N. E. Br.
caption: Orontium aquaticum
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