Plant descriptions ²

Underground parts with shrivelled tubers at end of ticker roots. leaves mid to dark green above depending on age, pale below, leaf bases and margins, ligules, scapes and bracts pinkish-purple. Flowers 3 cm long; Calyx 3-4 mm long, obselate and obtus; Corolla lanceolate to oblanceolate. Fruit bright green or with purple spotting, tepal remnants pink, 8 x 6 mm.

Elevation ²

Up to 1 000 m.

Reference ²

Humbert H., 1946. 47è Famille - Zingiberaceae. Flore de Madagascar (Plantes vasculaires). Ed. Imprimerie Officielle Tananarive. 30 p.

Sources and Credits

1. no rights reserved, uploaded by Romer Rabarijaona
2. (c) Romer Rabarijaona, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• African Plants - a photo guide
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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