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nouna conspicuous bract surrounding or subtending a spadix or other inflorescencetype of:
Definition that contains spathe
- calla South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix
- tuckahoe perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries
- spadix the fleshy axis of a spike often surrounded by a spathe
- symplocarpus foetidus deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe
- lysichiton americanum clump-forming deciduous perennial swamp plant of western North America similar to Symplocarpus foetidus but having a yellow spathe
- aroid any plant of the family Araceae; have small flowers massed on a spadix surrounded by a large spathe
- pink calla calla having a rose-colored spathe
- friar's-cowl tuberous perennial having a cowl-shaped maroon or violet-black spathe; Mediterranean; Canaries; Azores
- arum palaestinum ornamental plant of Middle East cultivated for its dark purple spathe
- anthurium scherzerianum commonly cultivated anthurium having bright scarlet spathe and spadix