Dracontioides

Dracontioides is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae.

[2][3][4] The type species of the genus is Dracontioides desciscens, native to swamps in eastern Brazil.

This species was originally classified by Heinrich Wilhelm Schott as belonging to Urospatha, but it was subsequently reassigned to its own genus Dracontioides by Adolf Engler.

The most notable feature of the species its glossy extremely sagittate leaves with oval fenestrations.

Additionally, the inflorescence produced has a smell of rotting meat.