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Toxic plant genus in family Araceae. Contains raphide oxalate crystals; causes oral mucosal erosions and stomatitis if ingested. Called also Indian turnip, jack-in-the-pulpit.


 
 

The botanical name for jack-in-the-pulpit.

arisaema

 
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Meaning #1: tuberous or rhizomatous herbaceous perennials
  Synonym: genus Arisaema


 
Wikipedia: Arisaema
Arisaema
Arisaema triphyllum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Genus: Arisaema
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Species

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Arisaema is a genus of about 150 species in the flowering plant family Araceae, native to eastern and central Africa, Asia and eastern North America. Its species are often called Cobra lilies, particularly the Asiatic species. A familiar species in North America is Arisaema triphyllum (Jack in the pulpit).

Selected species
  • Arisaema amurense Maxim.
  • Arisaema angustatum Fr. et Sav.
  • Arisaema candidissimum - White jack
  • Arisaema concinnum Schott
  • Arisaema consanguineum Schott
  • Arisaema costatum (Wall.) Mart
  • Arisaema dracontium - Green dragon
  • Arisaema elephas Buchet
  • Arisaema erubescens (Wall.) Schott
  • Arisaema fimbriatum Masters
  • Arisaema flavum (Forsk.) Schott
  • Arisaema griffithii Schott
  • Arisaema jacquemontii Blume
  • Arisaema kiushianum Makino
  • Arisaema lidaense J. Murata et SKWu
  • Arisaema lihenganum
  • Arisaema monophyllum Nakai
  • Arisaema nepenthoides
  • Arisaema peninsulae Nakai
  • Arisaema propinquum
  • Arisaema ringens (Thunb.) Schott
  • Arisaema robustum
  • Arisaema serratum (Thunb.) Schott - Jack in the pulpit
  • Arisaema sikokianum Fr. et Sav. - Gaudy jack
  • Arisaema speciosum - Jack in the pulpit
  • Arisaema thunbergii Blume
  • Arisaema tortuosum (Wallich) Schott
  • Arisaema triphyllum - Jack in the pulpit, Indian turnip
  • Arisaema undulatifolium Nakai
  • Arisaema undulatifolium Nakai var. limbatum (Nakai et F. Maek.) Ohashi et J. Murata
  • Arisaema thunbergii Blume subsp. urashima Hara
  • Arisaema utile
  • Arisaema wattii J. D. Hook.
  • Arisaema yamatense (Nakai) Nakai - Jack in the pulpit

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