Arisaema enneaphyllumHochst. ex A.Rich.

WFO wfo-0000270678 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Arisaema enneaphyllum, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. a Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / 2012-07-30 / obs. 104735774
Arisaema enneaphyllum, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. b Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104249314
Arisaema enneaphyllum, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. c Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104249322
Arisaema enneaphyllum, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. d Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 104249332

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000345979
Filed as
Arisaema enneaphyllum Hochst. ex A.Rich.
Det. by
Robyns; Tournay
Collected
Schimper 1838-07-05
Origin
ET
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Arisaema enneaphyllum is native: Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan-South Sudan, Uganda, Yemen EthiopiaKenyaSudan-South SudanUgandaYemen
Native distribution of Arisaema enneaphyllum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Ethiopia ETH AFRICA
Kenya KEN
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Uganda UGA
Yemen YEM ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 1 synonym

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Arisaema polydactylum Riedl

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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