Genus: ± 24 species.
Region: South America, Central America, southern Mexico, and the West Indies; Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Trinidad, Windward Islands, Venezuela, Peru, northwestern Brazil, Guianas.
Taxonomy: looks like Amorphophallus in the Old World
Botany: inflorescence is smaller and unisexual; root a large tuber, rounder, with no central and circular scar mark, swells and smoothens when flowering.