This is definitely Arisaema tortuosum - quite distinctive fruiting heads and foliage. May I recommend on future occasions you remove a few seeds from the reddish/orange pulp and photograph these close-up. They are also distinctive, quite large for the genus and mottled. The seeds can then be placed in the soil near to the plant - you will have acted as a bird or other creature who would have eaten the seed and as it passed through its digestive system this pulp which contain germination inhibiting chemicals is removed and as the animal excretes the seed (often dispersed some distance away) it may drop somewhere where a fresh plant can grow.
Whilst the species is distinctive it exhibits considerable variation with a number of varieties recognised. 'Enumeration of the Flowering Plants of Nepal' says both var. tortuosum and var. curvatum are found - the former variety being widespread in the country from 1300-2900m. Collet in 'Flora Simlensis' separated Arisaema helliborifolium (Arisaema tortuosum var. helliborifolium) and Arisaema curvatum. He said that A.helliborifolium is the first to appear (the plants die down completely over winter) sometimes coming into flower before the monsoon. 'Flowers of the Himalaya' give a range of Kashmir to SW China in forests, shrubberies and on open slopes. It is often the tallest of Arisaemas at times exceeding 1.5m. 'Araceae' for Flora of Pakistan gives a distribution of temperate and subtropical Himalaya, Baluchistan, Western China & North Myanamar. *Certainly a robust, prominent, large species found at the lowest levels of any Arisaema in the Himalaya.* On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 3:21:57 PM UTC, Saroj Kumar Kasaju wrote: > Dear Members, > > Location: Pilot Baba Ashram, Bhaktapur , Nepal > Altitude: 5500 ft. > Date: 26 September 2016 > > *Arisaema tortuosum (Wall.) Schott (accepted name) ??* > > Thank you. > > Saroj Kasaju > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
