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Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Zantedeschia Spreng.

ZANTEDESCHIA Sprengel

Robust, erect, scapose, monoecious, rhizomatous or tuberous, evergreen or deciduous, perennial herbs. Leaves sagittate-cordate; petioles long, clasping at base. Inflorescence solitary, terminal; scape ± = leaves. Spathe funnel-shaped, white, yellow or rarely red. Spadix with basal female zone contiguous with upper longer male zone; sterile terminal appendage 0. Berries green or orange, few- to many-seeded. Spp. 6, of tropical and S. Africa. Adventive sp. 1.

Z. albomaculata (Hook. f.) Baillon with white-spotted leaves has been once collected as a garden outcast on a roadside at Westport - A.J. Healy 77/58, 4.5.1977 (CHR 309805).

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