Description
Stout herbs; root stock large; stem formed by the imbricate base of petioles. Leaves simple, large, with a thick midnerve and pinnately parallel nerves. Inflorescence terminal, spicate; bracts spathaceous, large. Flowers bisexual. Sepals and petals connate. Lip free, transparent. Stamens 5, fertile, with a sterile staminode. Ovary inferior, 3-celled; ovules many, axile; style filiform, with a lobulate stigma. Fruit fleshy, oblong.
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