Keyed Out #037 — Spathiphyllum wallisii

Question 1

Hundreds of minute flowers are crowded directly onto one fleshy upright column, and the single showy white blade standing behind them is a modified leaf rather than a ring of petals.

Accepted Answer

arum family

Question 2

As the white blade withers, that same column ripens into a crowded rank of small fleshy berries, one from each of the minute flowers.

Accepted Answer

Araceae

Question 3

Every flower on the column is complete, carrying both stamens and an {ovary}, instead of the column being split into a band of female flowers below and male flowers above.

Accepted Answer

Spathiphyllum

Question 4

Its leaves rise straight out of a creeping underground stem in a stemless clump, building no aerial cane and putting out no clinging roots.

Accepted Answer

Spathiphyllum

Question 5

Full grown it stays small, the whole clump under about 20 inches (50 cm) tall and wide, its white blade 2.5 to 7 inches (6 to 18 cm) long.

Accepted Answer

Spathiphyllum wallisii

Question 6

Its blades are simple, lance-shaped and tapered at both ends, without the pair of backward-pointing lobes that would cut an arrow or a heart into the base.

Accepted Answer

Spathiphyllum wallisii