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Namper (Homalomena pendula)

Dlium Namper (Homalomena pendula)

Namper (Homalomena pendula) is a plant species in Araceae, terna with a height of up to 80 cm, a pseudo erect stem, 5 cm in diameter, green to dark green color, living in tropical regions, especially near streams and widely used as an ornamental plant.

H. pendula has leaf stems as a pseudo stem with a length of up to 80 cm, overlapping position, green to dark green, sometimes has a pink color at the base and streaks of dark green.





Heart-shaped leaves, 45 cm long, 30 cm wide, staring at the base, the tip is pointed or rounded, the upper surface is dark green and shiny, the lower surface is pale green to whitish and sometimes new young leaves are red.

Inflorescences have 6 stems at a time, the sheath has a variety of colors including greenish yellow to yellowish white or dark red. Namper grows in secondary forests and along streams at altitudes up to 1,100 m.

Propagation using seeds and rhizomes, many are used as ornamental plants in the yard of a house or city park and offices. The population is abundant in nature and is widely cultivated in various places.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe: Homalomeneae
Genus: Homalomena Schott in H.W.Schott & S.L.Endlicher, Melet. Bot.: 20 (1832)
Species: Homalomena pendula (Blume) Bakh.f. in C.A.Backer, Bekn. Fl. Java 17(225): 31 (1957)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Caladium pendulum Blume in Catalogus: 103 (1823)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Arum purpureum Thunb. in Fl. Jav.: 20 (1825)
Homalomena alba Hassk. in Tijdschr. Natuurl. Gesch. Physiol. 9: 61 (1842)
Homalomena bancana Alderw. in Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 4: 186 (1922)
Homalomena coerulescens Jungh. ex Miq. in Fl. Ned. Ind. 3: 212 (1856)
Homalomena cordata Zoll. in Syst. Verz. Ind. Archip. 2: 83 (1854)
Homalomena discolor Alderw. (1922)
Homalomena gigantea Engl. in Pflanzenr., IV, 23Da(Heft 55): 62 (1912)
Homalomena purpurea (Thunb.) Backer, Bakh.f. & Steenis in Blumea 6: 359 (1950)
Homalomena rosea Alderw. (1922)
Homalomena rubra Hassk. (1842)
Zantedeschia alba K.Koch in Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) 1854(App.): 9 (1855)
Zantedeschia rubra (Hassk.) K.Koch in Verh. Vereins Beford. Gartenbaues Konigl. Preuss. Staaten, n.s., 4: 139 (1856)

PUBLICATIONS

Ara, H. (2001). An Annotated Checklist of Aroids of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Plant Taxonomy 8(2): 19-34.

Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Nguyễn Văn Du (2017). Thực Vật Chí Việt Nam. Flora of Vietnam 16: 1-458. Nhà xuất bản khoa học và kỹ thuật, Hà Nội.

Nurtjahya, E. & al. (2026). Flowering Plants of Bangka Island: Native and Introduced. Acta Botanica Hungarica 68: 127-156.

Sasikala, K., Vajravelu, E. & Daniel, P. (2019). Fascicles of Flora of India 29: 1-357. Botanical Survey of India, New Delhi.

Sharief, M.U. (ed.) (2024). Flora of India 28: 1-764. Botanical Survey of India.

VERNACULAR NAME

English: Namper
Indonesia: Namper, Kemoyang
Java: Kemoyang

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