ARUML. - ARUM LILIES
Scientific Description:
Tuberous perennials. Leaves petiolate, hastate to sagittate when mature. Spathe withering before maturation of fruit, lower part with margins overlapping but not united, forming a 'tube' ± contracted at throat; upper part (lamina) ovate to lanceolate, often brightly or luridly coloured inside. Spadix with elongate, conical to cylindrical appendix. Flowers unisexual, monoecious. Perianth absent. Female and male zones separated from each other by short zones usually bearing ± filiform sterile flowers (these rarely few or absent); sterile flowers also usually present between male zone and base of appendix. Stamens 3–4. Ovary 1-locular. Fruit a red berry containing 1–6 seeds. Many species are poisonous.
Reference:
Mill RR (1984). Arum L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 8: 43.
Public Description:
Arum is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as “arum lilies”. It is native to Europe, northern Africa, and western and central Asia, with the highest species diversity in the Mediterranean region. There are approximately 30 species in the world and 14 species (17 taxa) in Türkiye. The genus name is Latinized form of the Greek name for these plants, “aron”. Frequently called "arum lilies", they are not closely related to the true lilies Lilium. All parts of the plants including the berries are poisonous.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2015). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arum/, Accessed date: 22.12.2015.
Anonymous 2 (2015). http://www.britannica.com/plant/Arum/, Accessed date: 22.12.2015.
Anonymous 3 (2015). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Araceae/Arum/, Accessed date: 22.12.2015.
Alpınar K (2012). Arum L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 86−88.
