Araceae ???? Obviously not .... ID please

[Guus]

  Hello forumists,
I found an Araceae species near the coast in Ghana recently. Can anyone tell me what species this is? Or maybe I am wrong and it turnes out not to be an Araceae at all....
The quality of the pics is  , sorry for that.


Thanks and greetings, Guus

[Maggi Young]

Hello Guus,
if you could post photos which are larger in size - (it is  possible  to make 760pixels wide and still be under 200KB) it might be easier to see the plant.

Thank you! 

[Maggi Young]

I've heard from Pascal Bruggeman, who  specialises in Araceae - he writes :
 
"Hi Maggi,

The plant from Ghana Guus (has) posted : if the flowering stalk belongs to the leaf, can’t be an Araceae because aroids always have a single flower on a peduncle, never a raceme or anything like that.

Pascal "

[Maggi Young]

More from Pascal:

"It really depends if the leaf and the flowering stalk belong to the same plant or not. The leaf is split in 3, that is something that is also visible in Amorpophallus but the flowerstalk and the remainder of the flowers look like some Primulaceae or something? There are Amorphophallus in Ghana but the leaves of the plant from Guus seem too irregular.
Am. baumanii, dracontoides, johnsonii are Amoprhophallus from Ghana but have different leaves more in line with most other Amorphophallus There is another bigger aroid growing there but that one has spikes on the petioles (Anchomanus) and peculiar shapes of the leaflets."

[Guus]

Hello Maggi,
Thanks for all the help and effort! It realy seems to be something else than an Aroid I see. I found this Am. with the spiky leafs. They were realy very big! Maybe someone will tell us once what plant this is. I took two tubers, one single potato-like one and one, from the plant on the pictures, with two tubers as I explained. I will try to get it going ....

Greetings, Guus

[dscherberich]

It is a bit difficult to clearly see details of the flowers but this looks quite like Tacca leontopetaloides to me. Indeed no aroid.

[dscherberich]

By the way Tacca leaves are very variable in terms of shape of the leaflets and very often mistaken for Amorphophallus!

[Guus]

Hello David,
Thanks very much! To me it is the plant you mention. Clearly from the pics I found on the www  and the descriptions I found.

Greetings, Guus

[Maggi Young]

Thanks from me too, David - I would not have been able to even guess Tacca