Flowers unisexual or bisexual, buds up to 10 by 5 cm, pinkish, smooth, at anthesis first concolorous white, later bright red or brown, 8-21 cm in diameter incl. the wormlike apical appendages. Perigone lobes c. 2.5 by 1.5 cm at base, free part 4.5-5 cm long (excl. the appendages), apex c. 0.5 cm thick; in upper c. 1.8 cm with short brown hairs with antler-shaped apices; lobes curved downwards touching the substrate, initially united at base in groups of 3 or 4, later free, splitting on the outside to c. 1.5 cm from the base of the tube, on the inside to c. 3 cm, forming a thin c. 1.5 cm long membrane. Perigone tube 2-2.5 cm long, inside with 46-55 brown lines around the column, fading out towards the base of the lobes; base and inside of the tube with 5-7 mm long hairs, apically slightly hooked; column c. 2 cm long, base narrow, c. 1 cm thick, head globular, 1.8-2 cm wide, apex purplish brown, hairy, crater 0.5-0.9 cm diam. Anthers 38-50. Ovary with stigmatic ring c. 0.5 cm high, white. Fruit subglobose, up to 6.5 cm diameter, brown, hidden by the dark-brown dried perianth. Seeds oblong, c. 0.75 by 0.3 mm, appendage oblong, about half as long as the seed. Fig. 12.
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