A herb. It has a disk shaped tuber. This is 10-25 cm across and 5-10 cm deep. It is dark red brown. The leaf is 1-1.5 m tall and 1 m across. The leaf appears after the flower. The leaf stalk is 1 m long and 4 cm across and purple black with dark green and cream spots. The leaf blade is divided into leaflets and the end leaflets are 6-12 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. They have a tip at the end. Underneath the leaflets are reddish and the veins are raised. The edges can be wavy. The flowering stalk is 30-100 cm long and 1-3 cm across. It is light purple with dark purple spots. The spathe is erect and 18-35 cm long. It forms a cone shaped tube without a constriction. The inside at the base is dark violet. The spadix is 15-40 cm long.
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