Flowers 30-60 cm diameter, no data available on size of buds. Perigone lobes dark orange-red all over, 16-18 cm long, warts light pinkish, little contrasting with their surroundings, about 10 across at the base, with many smaller warts in between. Diaphragm darker red than the perigone lobes, c. 20-25 cm diameter, upper surface with 3-5 concentric circles of circular reddish warts with darker red margins, weakly contrasting, in about 40 radial lines; lower side of diaphragm with about 3(-5?) concentric circles of flat circular knobs, c. 10 mm in diameter, on 5 mm high stalks, grading into the ramenta towards the upper rim of the perigone tube; opening small, c. 3-9 cm wide, sexangular or heptangular, sometimes weakly lobed. Column 5-6 cm high, c. 7-8 cm in diameter at the neck. Disk 13-14 cm diameter, with about 15 processes. Ramenta branched, with swollen apices, c. 12 mm long, those towards the base of the perigone tube only 5-7 mm long and unbranched. Male flowers with 40 anthers. Fig. 6. Plate 3.
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