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Robust herbs with large tuber. Leaves peltate, cordate-sagittate; lamina simple. Plant flowering with leaves. Spathe with a short green ellipsoid basal tube (which is not strongly inflated) and much longer yellow to orange apex. Spadix shorter than spathe with a conical naked sterile appendix. Flowers unisexual. Worldwide: 8 species in tropical Asia; C. esculenta widely cultivated throughout the tropics Malawi: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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