 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.often referred to as purple aki.