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Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005) A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Terrestrial herbs, with rhizomes or tubers; latex milky. Leaves petiole sheathed at base, blades arrow-shaped. Inflorescence one to several per axil, shorter than leaves, spathe constricted, tube edges overlapping at base; spathe blade boat-shaped, usually white, deciduous; spadix in sections, green to bright orange. Fruit cylindric with many seeds. Worldwide: About 45 species native to the New World tropics. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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