Plants stout, resembling a Banana; leaves broadly oblong, 75-100 cm. long, 20-40 cm. broad, acute at the tip, rounded or somewhat cordate at the base, green, the petiole 60-70 cm. long; inflorescence erect or essentially so, the stout pedun-cle 3-20 cm. long, bracts usually 15-20, ovate, broadest at the base, acute, 4-5 cm. long, 5-6 cm. broad, not greatly compressed, sparsely pilosulose, somewhat ascending or hori-zontally spreading, dark red, usually somewhat greenish at the keel, closely imbricated virtually their entire length and concealing the rachis; perianth 2.0-2.5 cm. long; fruits sub-globose, about 1 cm. thick.
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