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Evergreen to deciduous, cormous or rhizomatous geophytes. Leaves spiral; petioles welldeveloped, with persistent sheaths, sometimes setulose; blades entire, hastate to sagittate to lanceolate, sometimes maculate; venation striate, sometimes somewhat reticulate towards margin. Inflorescences solitary or in series usually interspersed with foliage leaves; peduncle c. as long as petioles; spathe narrowly to broadly campanulate, conspicuous, not or hardly constricted; spadix shorter than spathe; female zone of naked pistils, or these interspersed with staminodes; male zone a mass of stamens (male flowers not recognisable as such); stamens truncate; appendix absent. Fruit protected by persistent spathe or spathe base, a green to yellow fleshy berry containing 1–several leathery seeds.
Robust, erect, scapose, monoecious, rhizomatous or tuberous, evergreen or deciduous, perennial herbs. Leaves sagittate-cordate; petioles long, clasping at base. Inflorescence solitary, terminal; scape ± = leaves. Spathe funnel-shaped, white, yellow or rarely red. Spadix with basal female zone contiguous with upper longer male zone; sterile terminal appendage 0. Berries green or orange, few-to many-seeded. Spp. 6, of tropical and S. Africa. Adventive sp. 1.
