Description

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Growth Form: Geophytic perennial herbs with a cormous rootstock.

Stems: Flowering stems terete (cylindrical).

Roots: Fibrous root system.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Usually distichous, usually isobilateral and unifacial. Blades lanceolate, plane and isobilateral. Margins entire. Veins parallel. Sessile. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in branched spikes, bracts short, coriaceous, becoming dry and brown. Flowers bisexual (perfect) sessile, actinomorphic or zygomorphic. Tepals shades of red to orange, spreading, subequal or the uppermost larger and held apart from the others, connate into a tube. Stamens 3, symmetrically disposed around the style or unilateral and arched below the upper tepal. Ovary inferior, 3-carpellate, 3-celled, globose; ovule placentation, axile; style slender, divided near apex into 3 short, recurved, filiform stigmatic branches.

Fruit: Capsules globose; 3–lobed. Seeds up to 4 per cell; globose.

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