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Arum purpureospathum; photograph (c) Paul Cook, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Paul Cook, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-02-24

Arum purpureospathum P.C.Boyce

Purple Spathe Arum

Araceae · Kriti

No habitat climate
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Summary

Arum purpureospathum is a woodland plant species of the family Araceae. It is found on Crete.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Arum purpureospathum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Arum

Arum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. They are native to Europe, northern Africa, and western and central Asia, with the highest species diversity in the Mediterranean region. Frequently called arum lilies, they are not closely related to the true lilies Lilium. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 7 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 7 of the 7 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; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeKriti · 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).
Map marker35.214, 24.05 · in the densest population, 7 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“tuberous geophyte” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 7 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 17 km away. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 7 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.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 7 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Paul Cook, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Arum 19 in the reference

Arum apulum Arum apulum Apulian lords and ladies Photo: CC BY, Leonardo AncillottoArum besserianum Arum besserianum Araceae Photo: CC BY, Galyna MykytynetsArum concinnatum Arum concinnatum Elaborated Arum Photo: CC BY, Andre HosperArum creticum Arum creticum Cretan Arum Photo: CC BY, Eleftherios KatsillisArum cylindraceum Arum cylindraceum Mountain Arum Photo: CC BY, dachsise Arum cyrenaicum Araceae Arum dioscoridis Arum dioscoridis Dioscorides Arum Photo: CC BY, Dena Arum euxinum Black Sea Arum Arum hygrophilum Arum hygrophilum Water Arum Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinhaArum idaeum Arum idaeum Araceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozArum italicum Arum italicum Italian lords-and-ladies Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinhaArum korolkowii Arum korolkowii Korolkov’s arum Photo: CC0, author not stated all 20 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Araceae
Described by
P.C.Boyce
Native to
Kriti
Wild records
7 in range · 1 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 2026-10-217 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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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