Synandrospadix is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It comprises a single species Synandrospadix vermitoxicus. It is found in Peru, Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. The inflorescence has an unpleasant smell with a spathe whose inner surface is purple with brownish-green warts and a smooth green outer surface. The spadix is egg shaped, red, and has spiked male flowers protruding from it.
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Synandrospadix is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It comprises a single species Synandrospadix vermitoxicus. It is found in Peru, Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. The inflorescence has an unpleasant smell with a spathe whose inner surface is purple with brownish-green warts and a smooth green outer surface. The spadix is egg shaped, red, and has spiked male flowers protruding from it.
==Uses== The Indigenous Enxet people of the Paraguayan Gran Chaco traditionally consume the roots of Synandrospadix (yátapomxet in Enxet), which are gathered in the wild.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).