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Amorphophallus decus-silvae; photograph Rudolphous, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SARudolphous, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Amorphophallus decus-silvae Backer & Alderw.

Araceae · Jawa · listed by its genus as a bulb, tuber or caudex

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Amorphophallus decus-silvae, photograph Rudolphous, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAmorphophallus decus-silvae, photograph Rudolphous, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAmorphophallus decus-silvae, photograph Rudolphous, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAmorphophallus decus-silvae, photograph Rudolphous, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAmorphophallus decus-silvae, photograph Sleutelstad, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 6 photographs ›

Summary

Amorphophallus decus-silvae, known as the West-Java giant amorphophallus, is a flowering plant in the family Araceae. It is native to West Java and was first described by Dutch botanist Cornelis Andries Backer in 1863.

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About the genus · Amorphophallus

Amorphophallus is a large genus of some 200 tropical and subtropical tuberous herbaceous plants from the arum family (Araceae), native to Asia, Africa, Australia and various oceanic islands. The genus includes the Titan arum of Indonesia, which has the largest inflorescence in the genus, and is known as the 'corpse flower' for the pungent odour it produces during its flowering period, which can take up to seven years of growth before it occurs.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Amorphophallus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a bulb, tuber or caudex, listed under the genus Amorphophallus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tuberous geophyte”.

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Group. Listed under the genus Amorphophallus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “tuberous geophyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 2 of the 3 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeJawa · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: Rudolphous, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4); Sleutelstad, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Amorphophallus 42 in the reference

Amorphophallus albispathus Araceae Amorphophallus albus Araceae Amorphophallus amygdaloides Araceae Amorphophallus ankarana Araceae Amorphophallus asterostigmatus Araceae Amorphophallus atroviridis Amorphophallus atroviridis Araceae Photo: CC BY, Utain Pummarin Amorphophallus borneensis Araceae Amorphophallus bulbifer Amorphophallus bulbifer Araceae Photo: CC0, author not stated Amorphophallus carneus Araceae Amorphophallus cicatricifer Araceae Amorphophallus coaetaneus Amorphophallus coaetaneus Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Pavel KirillovAmorphophallus consimilis Amorphophallus consimilis Araceae Photo: CC BY, Lucy Keith-Diagne all 43 ›

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Araceae
Described by
Backer & Alderw.
Native to
Jawa
Wild records
3 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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