Arum idaeum
Arum idaeum is a woodland plant species of the family Araceae. It is found on Crete.
Description
It has an ovate tuber.The plant grows tall. Stalk base and lower third of petioles is red-veined. Stem is white. Leaves immaculate, and smaller than some coterminous species; ovate-triangular in outline, their lobes horizontally lanceolate, peduncle equal to the leaves.
Spathe is usually almost white, shorter, concolorous, white appendix, far exceeding the spathe, male ring much shorter than female.
Berry is angular, ovate.
Distribution and habitat
It has been recorded at elevations of 1060–1981 m. It often grows under thickets of Berberis cretica.Ecology
Flowers June–July.Taxonomy
Together with Arum creticum it has been placed in subsection Cretica, which has been confirmed through genetic testing. They are estimated to have split about 2.2 Mya. No other species are related within 5 Mya.It was discovered as a species on Mount Ida in 1913–1914 by botanists Paul Cousturier and Michel Gandoger.