1) Aroid 2) Arum 
==History== The oldest systematic record of the plants was in 1692, when Van Rheede tot Drakenstein published descriptions of two plants. The name `Amorphophallus` was first mentioned in 1834 by the Dutch botanist Blume. Between 1876 and 1911, Engler merged a number of other genera into Amorphophallus, with a final monograph published in 1911. T.....
Amorphophallus is a genus of herbaceous plants of the aroid family (Araceae) consisting of about 170 species - including the impressive Tian arum - found mainly in lowland secondary forests in the tropics from west Africa eastwards into Polynesia. Plants of the genus have a single leaf that emerges from an underground tuber. This leaf consists of a...
[n] - any plant of the genus Amorphophallus
noun any plant of the genus Amorphophallus